Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes on Knowledge
Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher, essayist, and the most influential Spanish thinker of the twentieth century. This page collects quotes attributed to Jose Ortega y Gasset on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Jose Ortega y Gasset:
“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
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“Original: " La vida no puede esperar a que las ciencias expliquen científicamente el Universo . No se puede vivir ad kalendas graecas . El atributo más esencial de la existencia es su perentoriedad: la vida es siempre urgente. Se vive aquí y ahora sin posible demora ni traspaso. La vida nos es disparada a quemarropa. Ya la cultura, que no es sino su interpretación, no puede tampoco esperar.”
Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself. -
“Mission of the University [ Misión de la Universidad (PDF) ] (1930; translation © 1944, first published 1946), p. 73 [p. 15 in Spanish PDF], translated by Howard Lee Nostrand. ISBN 978-1-56000-560-5”
Life cannot wait until the sciences may have explained the universe scientifically. We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, "here and now" without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank. And culture, which is but its interpretation, cannot wait any more than can life itself. -
“Man and People [ El hombre y la gente ] (1957), p. 42, translated by Willard R. Trask. ISBN 0-393-00123-7”
Life is fired at us point blank. -
“Yo soy yo y mi circumstancia, y si no la salvo a ella no me salvo yo.”
I am I and my circumstance , and if I don't save it I don't save myself. -
“Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.”
Cited in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject , ed. Susan Ratcliffe (2010), p. 223 -
“Cited in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations by Subject , ed. Susan Ratcliffe (2010), p. 223”
Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.