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  • (noun): Spanish philosopher who advocated leadership by an intellectual elite (1883-1955).
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José Ortega Y Gasset

José Ortega y Gasset (; 9 May 1883 – 18 October 1955) 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 Friedrich Nietzsche, a proponent of the idea of perspectivism, which was pioneered in European thought by Immanuel Kant.

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... Much of Ortega y Gasset's work consists of course lectures published years after the fact, often posthumously ... Ortega himself prevented its publication "because of the events of Munich in 1934" ...

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    “An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.”
    —José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955)

    “The poet begins where the man ends. The man’s lot is to live his human life, the poet’s to invent what is nonexistent.”
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