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José Ortega y Gasset

Born

in Madrid, Spain

May 09, 1883

Died

October 18, 1955

Genre

Philosophy, Politics

Influences

Immanuel Kant, Nietzsche, Edmund Husserl, Oswald Spengler, Max Scheler ...more

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José Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist working during the first half of the 20th century while Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship. He was, along with Kant, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism.

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Average rating: 3.97 · 15,665 ratings · 1,522 reviews · 692 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Revolt of the Masses 4.03 avg rating — 6,859 ratings — published 1923 — 69 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dehumanization of Art and Other Essays on Art, Culture and Literature 3.82 avg rating — 1,465 ratings — published 1925 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Estudios sobre el amor 3.76 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 1940 — 111 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	España invertebrada 3.85 avg rating — 1,039 ratings — published 1921 — 67 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What Is Philosophy? 4.09 avg rating — 667 ratings — published 1958 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Meditations on Quixote 4.03 avg rating — 503 ratings — published 1914 — 66 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Man and People (Norton Library (Paperback)) 4.10 avg rating — 331 ratings — published 1957 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History as a System and other Essays Toward a Philosophy of History by José Ortega y Gasset, John William Miller (Afterword), Helene Weyl (Translator) 4.07 avg rating — 282 ratings — published 1941 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El tema de nuestro tiempo 3.91 avg rating — 209 ratings — published 1923 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El Espectador 3.90 avg rating — 205 ratings — published 1969 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by José Ortega y Gasset (?)

“Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

tags: interests, personality, values

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“Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.”
― Jose Ortega y Gasset

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“The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

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Friedrich Nietzsche

100 votes, 8.9%

Albert Camus

74 votes, 6.6%

Karl Marx

62 votes, 5.5%

Soren Kierkegaard

49 votes, 4.4%

Ludwig Wittgenstein

45 votes, 4.0%

Aristotle

41 votes, 3.7%

Immanuel Kant

40 votes, 3.6%

Plato

38 votes, 3.4%

Marcus Aurelius

35 votes, 3.1%

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

32 votes, 2.9%

Gilles Deleuze (write-in)

32 votes, 2.9%

Jean-Paul Sartre

29 votes, 2.6%

cumdump (write-in)

29 votes, 2.6%

Thomas Aquinas

28 votes, 2.5%

yes (write-in)

26 votes, 2.3%

Arthur Schopenhauer (write-in)

26 votes, 2.3%

Fyodor dostoevsky (write-in)

25 votes, 2.2%

spinoza (write-in)

24 votes, 2.1%

Simone de Beauvoir

22 votes, 2.0%

René Descartes

20 votes, 1.8%

Augustine of Hippo

18 votes, 1.6%

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18 votes, 1.6%

Socrates (write-in)

17 votes, 1.5%

David Hume

16 votes, 1.4%

Martin Heidegger

16 votes, 1.4%

Jordan Peterson (write-in)

15 votes, 1.3%

Jesus (write-in)

15 votes, 1.3%

Hannah Arendt

13 votes, 1.2%

Epictetus (write-in)

11 votes, 1.0%

José Ortega y Gasset

10 votes, 0.9%

Ibn Sina (write-in)

10 votes, 0.9%

Carl Jung (write-in)

10 votes, 0.9%

Bertrand Russell (write-in)

9 votes, 0.8%

Olavo de Carvalho

8 votes, 0.7%

Julius Evola (write-in)

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Gilbert Keith Chesterton

7 votes, 0.6%

Mário Ferreira dos Santos

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6 votes, 0.5%

Buddha (write-in)

6 votes, 0.5%

Sigmund Freud (write-in)

6 votes, 0.5%

Roger Scruton

5 votes, 0.4%

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (write-in)

5 votes, 0.4%

Nicholas Sparks (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Charles Darwin (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Ayn Rand (write-in)

4 votes, 0.4%

Kosov (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Serb (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Hypatia

3 votes, 0.3%

Maimonides (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Euclid (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Alfred Whitehead (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Edmund Husserl (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Judith Butler (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Max Stirner (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Michel Foucault (write-in)

3 votes, 0.3%

Eric Voegelin

2 votes, 0.2%

Rene Guenon (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Heraclitus (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

William James (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Thomas Hobbes (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Albert Einstein (write-in)

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Francis Bacon (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Alan Watts (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Jacques Derrida (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Niccoló Machiavelli

2 votes, 0.2%

Diogenes (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

immanuel kant (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Seneca (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

my dad :) (write-in)

2 votes, 0.2%

Michael Oakeshott

1 vote, 0.1%

John Dewey (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Henri Bergson (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

George Berkeley (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Teilhard de Chardin (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Parmenides (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Democritus (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Rudolf Carnap (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Lucretius (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Paul Preciado (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Karl Popper (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Julius Bahnsen (write-in)

1 vote, 0.1%

Joseph Campbell (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Gottfried Leibniz (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

George Santayana (write-in)

0 votes, 0.0%

Voltaire (write-in)

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Jeremy Bentham (write-in)

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