"The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a……" — Jose Ortega y Gasset

"The nineteenth century, utilitarian throughout, set up a utilitarian interpretation of the phenomenon of life which has come down to us and may still be considered as the commonplace of everyday thinking. ... An innate blindness seems to have closed the eyes of this epoch to all but those facts which show life as a phenomenon of utility"

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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