Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes


Triumph cannot help being cruel.


Citations

Ortega y Gasset, José. The Revolt of the Masses. W.W. Norton & Company, 1932, p. 16.

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Jose Ortega y Gasset
Jose Ortega y Gasset
  • Born: May 9, 1883
  • Died: October 18, 1955
  • Nationality: Spanish
  • Profession: Philosopher

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."