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Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher born on May 9, 1883, and died on October 18, 1955. He is known for his work in the philosophy of knowledge and culture, and for his analysis of the nature of man and society.

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Famous Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

“What, by a word lacking even in grammar, is called amorality, is a thing that does not exist. If you are unwilling to submit to any norm, you have, nolens volens , to submit to the norm of denying all morality, and this is not amoral, but immoral. It is a negative morality which preserves the empty form of the other.”

Ifs Doe Form Morality Negative Empty Preserves Submit Lacking Norm Immoral Grammar Unwilling Amorality

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which can be called "public" or "popular" opinion.”

Ifs Doe Opinion Meditation Honest Theme Meditating Prevailing Popular Opinion

Author: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.”

Men Want Giving Firsts Doe Reason Shows Opinion Type First Time Europe Species Fascism

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.”

Thinking Feels Doe States Political Rooms Powerful Principles Rights Limits Authority Stronger Majority Liberalism Spite Expenses Political Rights

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.”

Men Heart Doe Talent Genius Absence Supreme Excellent Tolerate

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.”

Knows Men Believe Doe Success Time Belief Creation Capable Capability

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.”

Humans Doe Order Conditions Stupid Contrary Acknowledge Vacation Hunting Human Condition Hunters Hunts Misunderstood Hunted

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

About the Author

Born: May 9, 1883
Died: October 18, 1955
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 169

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