Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes about Past

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The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Regret, Past, Ought

Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Struggle, Fighting, Past

Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

In this initial illimitableness of possibilities that characterizes one who has no nature there stands out only one fixed, pre-established, and given line by which he may chart his course, only one limit: the past.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Past, Lines, May

"History as a System". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, transleted by ‎Helene Weyl. Chapter "Man has no nature", 1962.