Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Jose Ortega y Gasset — Spanish Philosopher born on May 09, 1883, died on October 18, 1955

José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher, and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century, while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James, and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce.".. (wikipedia)

I am I plus my circumstances.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.

Life is an operation which is done in a forward direction. One lives toward the future, because to live consists inexorably in doing, in each individual life making itself.

Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

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