“Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.”
José Ortega Y Gasset (1883–1955) Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist
Source: Man and Crisis (1962), p. 94.
“Tell me your relation to pain, and I will tell you who you are!”
On Pain (1934)
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