“The individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.” WorldLooksTruthAbleIndividualViewsPoint Of View Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Strictly speaking, the mass, as a psychological fact, can be defined without waiting for individuals to appear in mass formation. In the presence of one individual we can decide whether he is "mass" or not. The mass is all that which sets no value on itself good or ill based on specific grounds, but which feels itself "just like everybody," and nevertheless is not concerned about it; is, in fact, quite happy to feel itself as one with everybody else.” FeelsFactsValuesIndividualWaitingMassConcernedIllPsychologicalDefinedNeverthelessFormation Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Life, individual or collective, personal or historic, is the one entity in the universe whose substance is compact of danger, of adventure. It is, in the strict sense of the word, drama. The primary, radical meaning of life appears when it is employed in the sense not of biology, but of biography. For the very strong reason that the whole of biology is quite definitely only a chapter in certain biographies, it is what biologists do in the portion of their lives open to biography.” ReasonWholeCertainUniverseIndividualStrongDangerAdventureDramaRadicalPrimariesSubstanceMeaning Of LifeCollectivesBiologyVery StrongPortionsChaptersEntityStrictBiographiesEmployedHistoricBiologistCompact Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.” MindDifferentMatterTodayFormIndividualDisciplineHonorDiscoveryCuriosityPhilosopherTreasureClarityDragonsCourtesyProfaneTerminology Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“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.” LifeDoneLife IsIndividualMoving ForwardOperationsIndividual Life Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.” ThinkingMayMightLyingIndividualBeliefIssuesOur LivesConditionsBuildingGoldBasesBottomCreditArchitectureReviewsMetalsReservesCautionTokensVaultsIndividual LifeCredence Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset
“The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.” ThinkingMenWorldBelieveHumansHas BeensStillsWholeCertainIndividualCausesDifficultCommonEffortSupportVirtueCreationFindingsNotionExcellentNew WorldMagnificentRapidsFacilityCommon ManDisappearanceEdifice Book:the Revolt of the Masses Source: the Revolt of the Masses
