Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
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.
Ortega y Gasset, José. History as a System and Other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History. W.W. Norton & Company, 1961, p. 212.
“Roosevelt” was President Theodore Roosevelt who had just supported a revolution in Panama with warships and then “negotiated” for the Panama Canal with the new 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."