Man does not exercise his thought because he finds it amusing, but because, obliged as he is to live immersed in the world and to force his way among… - José Ortega y Gasset

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Man does not exercise his thought because he finds it amusing, but because, obliged as he is to live immersed in the world and to force his way among things, he finds himself under the necessity of organizing his psychic activities, which are not very different from those of the anthropoid, in the form of thought — which is what the animal does not do.