Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
Ortega y Gasset, José. The Revolt of the Masses. W.W. Norton & Company, 1932, p. 74.
The interviewer asked her for an example of a piece of legislation for which she had voted that represented a compromise. She was an example of ideological politicians for whom compromise is considered an abandonment of principle. At the time, she was asked this question, not one of her pieces of legislation had ever become law. It amost always takes compromise to get enough votes to pass legislation in a democracy.
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish 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 (prior to Martin Heidegger's) and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
