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José Ortega y Gasset

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José Ortega y Gasset · 1883–1955

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“He argued that you are not a soul trapped in a setting or a body stamped out by one — you are a lifelong task: a self that only becomes real by working on the world it was thrown into.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 204

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“The most basic reality is neither the mind nor the world but my life — "I am I and my circumstance" — and reason exists to serve that life, not to float above it.”
— The Great Philosophers, Ch. 204

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