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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset quotes about time

Spanish Philosopher May 9, 1883 – October 18, 1955

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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
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
The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset quote: "We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable..."
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions. Jose Ortega y Gasset

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