Love is an impulse which springs from the most profound depths of our beings, and upon reaching the visible surface of life carries with it an alluvium of shells and seaweed from the inner abyss. A skilled naturalist, by filing these materials, can reconstruct the oceanic depths from which they have been uprooted.
José Ortega y Gasset. From Whiskey River.
To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand.
José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), Spanish philosopher and essayist, courtesy of Fernwood Zendo
I am I and my circumstance.
José Ortega y Gasset (Human beings and their circumstances exist in a dynamic interplay) (via fuckyeahexistentialism & billyjane)