José Ortega y Gasset quotes - page 6

Be it well understood, I am free by compulsion, whether I wish to be or not. Freedom is not an activity pursued by an entity that, apart from and previous to such pursuit, is already possessed of a fixed being. To be free means to be lacking in constitutive identity, not to have subscribed to a determined being, to be able to be other than what one was, to be unable to install oneself once and for all in any given being. The only attribute of the fixed, stable being in the free being is this constitutive instability. (José Ortega y Gasset)

José Ortega y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset - Image
Occupation: Spanish Philosopher
Born: May 9, 1883
Died: October 18, 1955
Quotes count: 126
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