The work of José Ortega y Gasset reveals a circumstantial thought that weaves together themes and concerns of various kinds and character in the complex theoretical and methodological framework of "vital reason". In his philosophical style, the expressive force of the sentence is animated by an insoluble tension between the metaphor and the concept. That tension is Ortega and in it lies the greatest value of his legacy as the main contribution to the construction of the Hispanic space for reflection. Meditation of the technique is a clear example of Ortega's philosophical work, always attentive to the real problems of contemporary man and ready to denounce the falsehoods of culturalism.