On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.
Jose Ortega y GassetWe fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.
Jose Ortega y GassetIf the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.
Jose Ortega y Gasset