“Tell Me What You Pay Attention to and I Will Tell You Who You Are.” – Jose Ortega Y Gasset
WRITTEN PAPER : “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.” – Jose Ortega y Gasset
In my paper I write about a quote from Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are”. Jose Ortega y Gasset (9 may 1883-18 octomber 1995) was a Spanish liberal philosopher and assayist working during the first half of the 20th century. His influence was considerable, not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings, but also because those writings did not require that the reader be well-versed in technical philosophy. I also like other quotes by Ortega y Gasset like: “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else”, but I decided to write about the quote mentioned above because along my childhood my mother always pointed out to me that people will judge me for my friends, my looks, for what clothes I will wear, for what I read, I say or do, in conclusion, for everything. As the years goes on, I found out this sad truth and how people can very easy judge us for a dress or what car we drive or worse, for what college we attend to and what friends we choose to have by our side. What Jose Ortega y Gasset wanted to say is that if you know what a person reads, listens to and watches, you can make a more than educated guess about his political leanings, I say political leanings because when Ortega y Gasset said this quote Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship, religious bent, educational background and to a certain extent, his intelligence. I agree with the part that say’s that we can guess the intelligence. We can difference a person with a high IQ by the language that person use, by his results at school, by the places he likes to go: opera, library’s, bookshops, by the book’s he reads and the theme the book has, like: philosophical
In my paper I write about a quote from Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are”. Jose Ortega y Gasset (9 may 1883-18 octomber 1995) was a Spanish liberal philosopher and assayist working during the first half of the 20th century. His influence was considerable, not only because many sympathized with his philosophical writings, but also because those writings did not require that the reader be well-versed in technical philosophy. I also like other quotes by Ortega y Gasset like: “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else”, but I decided to write about the quote mentioned above because along my childhood my mother always pointed out to me that people will judge me for my friends, my looks, for what clothes I will wear, for what I read, I say or do, in conclusion, for everything. As the years goes on, I found out this sad truth and how people can very easy judge us for a dress or what car we drive or worse, for what college we attend to and what friends we choose to have by our side. What Jose Ortega y Gasset wanted to say is that if you know what a person reads, listens to and watches, you can make a more than educated guess about his political leanings, I say political leanings because when Ortega y Gasset said this quote Spain oscillated between monarchy, republicanism and dictatorship, religious bent, educational background and to a certain extent, his intelligence. I agree with the part that say’s that we can guess the intelligence. We can difference a person with a high IQ by the language that person use, by his results at school, by the places he likes to go: opera, library’s, bookshops, by the book’s he reads and the theme the book has, like: philosophical