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. His philosophy has been characterized as a "philosophy of life" which "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."
Poetry is adolescence fermented, and thus preserved.
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.
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.