Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.


As quoted in Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre, p. 155 - History as a System (1962)

José Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.

Man must not only make himself: the weightiest thing he has to do is to determine what he is going to be. He is causa sui to the second power.