Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes
Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.
Ortega y Gasset, José. The Theme of Our Time. Translated by James Cleugh, W.W. Norton & Company, 1933, p. 19.
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."