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Jose Ortega y Gasset was a Spanish philosopher born on May 9, 1883, and died on October 18, 1955. He is known for his work in the philosophy of knowledge and culture, and for his analysis of the nature of man and society.

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Famous Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

“In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.”

Humans Doe Order Conditions Stupid Contrary Acknowledge Vacation Hunting Human Condition Hunters Hunts Misunderstood Hunted

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.”

Animal Accepting Audience Solitude Mountain Ethics Clouds Passing Passings Witness Code Hunting Commandments Hunters Oaks Trembling Roaming Code Of Ethics

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.”

Men Law Life Is Religious Emotion Mystery Divine Terrible Conflict Paid Hunting Laws Of Nature Transcendent Homage Formidable Rite Grandiose Confluence

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.”

Men Firsts Littles Stills Form Lost Natural Alive Historical Hunting Hunters Sleepy Prehistoric Prehistoric Man

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.”

Men Animal Attitude Hunting Hunters Jungle Alertness Alertness Is

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.”

Facts Animal Mystery Universal Regard Fascinating Hunting Superiority Strict Hierarchy Inferiority Improbable Inexorable Mystery Of Nature

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic."”

Dog Mountain Gun Feds Hunting Troublesome Fed Up

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

“Man is a fugitive from nature.”

Men Hunting Fugitive

Book:Meditations on Hunting

Source: Meditations on Hunting

“We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.”

Purpose Progress Achieve Ethics Perfection Accomplished Ethical Hunting Advancement

Author:Jose Ortega y Gasset

About the Author

Born: May 9, 1883
Died: October 18, 1955
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 169

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