The 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 GassetThe essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
Jose Ortega y GassetOne age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.
Jose Ortega y GassetOn 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 Gasset