“Man is a substantial emigrant on a pilgrimage of being, and it is accordingly meaningless to set limits to what he is capable of being.”

— José Ortega Y Gasset

“Man has no nature”
History as a System (1962)

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Spanish liberal philosopher and essayist 1883–1955

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