"The mission of intellectual appeal is somewhat opposite to the political. The intellectual work aspires, often vainly, to clarify things a bit, while the politician is usually, however, involve more confused than they were. Being on the left is, like being on the right, one of the countless ways that man can choose to be a jerk. Moreover, the persistence of these adjectives contributes greatly to further falsify reality, then, false in itself, because he has curly lock of political experiences to respond, as evidenced by the fact that right now the promise proposed leftist revolutions and tyrannies. When someone asks us why we are in politics or in anticipation with the insolence that belongs to the style of our time, we ascribed to one, instead of answering, we must ask the impertinent what he thinks is the man and the nature and history what is society and the individual, the community, the State, use the right. The policy is quick to turn off the lights so that all these cats have been brown. It is necessary that the European thinking on these issues provide new clarity."
Ortega y Gasset. "The Revolt of the Masses", 1937
Ortega y Gasset. "The Revolt of the Masses", 1937
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