About Jose Ortega y Gasset
José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher and essayist. He worked during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" that "comprised a long-hidden beginning in a pragmatist metaphysics inspired by William James and with a general method from a realist phenomenology imitating Edmund Husserl, which served both his proto-existentialism and his realist historicism, which has been compared to both Wilhelm Dilthey and Benedetto Croce."
![“The assurance that we have no means of answering [final] questions is no valid excuse for callousness towards them. The more deeply should we feel, down to the roots of our being, their pressure and their sting. Whose hunger has ever been [sated] with the knowledge that he could not eat?” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b60/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_assurance_the-assurance-that-we-have-no-means-of-a_2279415.jpg)
![“[T]he mass-man sees in the State an anonymous power, and feeling himself, like it, anonymous, he believes that the State is something of his own. Suppose that in the public life of a country some difficulty, conflict, or problem presents itself, the mass-man will tend to demand that the State…” quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/29f/jose-ortega-y-gasset-1688_absorption_t-he-mass-man-sees-in-the-state-an-anony_414993.jpg)
