Jose Ortega y Gasset. Poverty and brilliance of translation (№ 418860)

Isn't translation a hopelessly utopian pursuit? True, every day I am more and more inclined to the idea that everything that a person does is utopian. He is busy with knowledge, but he does not know anything to the end. In doing justice, he inevitably ends up fraudulent. He thinks he loves, but later notices that he has not gone beyond promises.