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José Ortega y Gasset
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Similarly a work of art vanishes from sight for a beholder who seeks in it nothing but the moving fate of John and Mary or Tristan and Isolde and adjusts his vision to this.
— "The Dehumanization of Art"
José Ortega y Gasset
Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist (1883–1955)
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The Spanish philosopher who built a "philosophy of life" while his country lurched from monarchy to republic to dictatorship — blending American pragmatism, German phenomenology, and a proto-existentialism that predated Heidegger.
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José Ortega y Gasset worked through the first half of the 20th century as Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism, and dictatorship. He drew from William James's pragmatist metaphysics and Edmund Husserl's realist phenomenology, forging a method that served twin ends: a proto-existentialism that came before Martin Heidegger's, and a realist historicism compared to Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce. The result was what scholars have called a "philosophy of life" — a long-hidden beginning that only later revealed its full architecture. He died in 1955, leaving a body of essays and phi…
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José Ortega y Gasset
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Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness.
— "Art a Thing of No Consequence"
José Ortega y Gasset
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It must be emphasized that the warrior spirit is one thing and the military spirit quite another. Militarism was unknown in the Middle Ages.
— Invertebrate Spain (1921)
José Ortega y Gasset
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The physical change in the thickness of walls since the Middle Ages could be shown in a diagram. In the fourteenth century each house was a fortress.
— p. 168
José Ortega y Gasset
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Now, apparently, many men are again feeling homesick for the herd. They devote themselves passionately to whatever there is left in them of the sheep.
— p. 170
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