José Ortega y Gasset

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José Ortega y Gasset


Born
in Madrid, Spain
May 09, 1883

Died
October 18, 1955

Genre

Influences


José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.

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“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
José Ortega y Gasset

“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
José Ortega y Gasset

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Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)
 
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Charles Darwin (write-in)
 
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Ayn Rand (write-in)
 
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Hypatia
 
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Maimonides (write-in)
 
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Euclid (write-in)
 
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William James (write-in)
 
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Thomas Hobbes (write-in)
 
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Francis Bacon (write-in)
 
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Alan Watts (write-in)
 
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Jacques Derrida (write-in)
 
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John Dewey (write-in)
 
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George Berkeley (write-in)
 
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Heraclitus (write-in)
 
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Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)
 
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Parmenides (write-in)
 
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Democritus (write-in)
 
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Albert Einstein (write-in)
 
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Lucretius (write-in)
 
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Niccoló Machiavelli
 
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Diogenes (write-in)
 
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Michel Foucault (write-in)
 
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Joseph Campbell (write-in)
 
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George Santayana (write-in)
 
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Voltaire (write-in)
 
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