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The Daily Princetonian

Valuing the luxury of thought

In 1930, Spanish thinker Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote: "To wonder is to begin to understand. This is the luxury special to the intellectual man." Ortega y Gasset penned these words as a caution against the approach of mass politics and as an exhortation to the intelligentsia to use their lives of luxury for positive social purposes.

OPINION | 11/06/2005

The Daily Princetonian

Valuing the luxury of thought

In 1930, Spanish thinker Jose Ortega y Gasset wrote: "To wonder is to begin to understand. This is the luxury special to the intellectual man." Ortega y Gasset penned these words as a caution against the approach of mass politics and as an exhortation to the intelligentsia to use their lives of luxury for positive social purposes.

OPINION | 11/06/2005

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