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. poetry
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself. death
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. the future & life
We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it. history
Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. 22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
22 wisdom & wit from Robert Browning
A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories. 53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
53 other sayings from Honore de Balzac
With what price we pay for the glory of motherhood. 5 wisdom & wit from Isadora Duncan
5 wisdom & wit from Isadora Duncan
The babe at first feeds upon the mother's bosom, but it is always on her heart. 58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher
58 quotes from Henry Ward Beecher