Psychological Investigations Quotes

“The thinker ought to be loyal to the small, just as the Creator is.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations

“We can never escape from ourselves, since subjectivity is governed by a most tragic principle, that of self-imprisonment. If being a perpetual prisoner is a terrible condition, how much more grim and horrible will the situation be of a prisoner who is his own jailer.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations

“The entire universe seems to be born and to die upon hearing the voice of my ego or subjectivity, which, like the voice of God, evidently possesses the boundless power to create and annihilate.”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations

“Science is vitiated when it comes into the realm of life, and—as the drab enterprise that it is—aspires to live off the golden tree of life”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations

“A myth is a metaphor oblivious of itself”
― José Ortega y Gasset, Psychological Investigations