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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes about humanity

Spanish Philosopher May 9, 1883 – October 18, 1955

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In their choice of lovers both the male and the female reveal their essential nature. The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else. Jose Ortega y Gasset
just because of its promise of unlimited possibilities technology is an empty form like the most formalistic logic and is unable to determine the content of life. that is why our time, being the most intensely technical, is also the emptiest in all human history. Jose Ortega y Gasset
On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live..."
The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human..."
Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "Law is born from despair of human nature."
Law is born from despair of human nature. Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are, above all, times in which the human reality, always mobile, accelerates, and bursts into vertiginous speeds. Our time is such a one, for it is made of descent and fall. Jose Ortega y Gasset
For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our..."
The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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