Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history. ✨ History as a…

Jose Ortega y Gasset
95 citations
Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history. ✨ History as a System. Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1935.
Reading
33

More Author Quotes

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct an … ▶
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 concr … ▶
Today violence is the rhetoric of the period. ✨ Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). the Revolt of the Masses
And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground. ✨ The Revolt of the Masses. Book by José Ortega y … ▶
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.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history. ✨ History as a System. Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1935.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes