Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.
Ortega y Gasset, José. On Love: Aspects of a Single Theme. Translated by Toby Talbot, Meridian Books, 1957, p. 44.
Expressing his feeling regarding President Grover Cleveland who failed to deal with serious economic problems:
FDR was hated by conservatives to a degree that no President in modern history was or would be until Bill Clinton served in that role. Both men were amazingly successful with their programs and administration of the government.
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."
