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• 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.

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  Hunting, Animal, Clouds

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.42, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• In these years we are witnessing the gigantic spectacle of innumerable human lives wandering about lost in their own labyrinths, through not having anything to which to give themselves.

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  Motivation, Years, Giving

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• The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

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  Philosophical, Men, Landscape

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• Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

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  Biographies, Contradiction, Human Life

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• Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hate, Irritation, Feelings

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• He who wishes to teach us a truth should not tell it to us, but simply suggest it with a brief gesture, a gesture which starts an ideal trajectory in the air along which we glide until we find ourselves at the feet of the new truth.

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  Truth, Honesty, Teaching

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• Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

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  Acceptance, Men, Soul

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• The direction of society has been taken over by a type of man who is not interested in the principles of civilisation. Not of this or that civilisation but from what we can judge today of any civilisation. The type of man dominant today is a primitive one, a Naturmensch rising up in the midst of a civilised world.

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  Taken, Men, Rising Up

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter IX: "The Primitive and the Technical", 1929.

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• I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

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  Garden, Justice, Save Me

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• The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

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  Reality, Thinking, World

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• To live is to feel oneself lost.

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  Lost, Feels, Oneself

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XIV: "Who Rules The World?", 1929.

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• Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. The symbol of art is seen again in the magic flute of the Great God Pan which makes the young goats frisk at the edge of the grove. All modern art begins to appear comprehensible and in a way great when it is interpreted as an attempt to instill youthfulness into an ancient world.

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  Art, Men, Magic

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Art a Thing of No Consequence", 1925.

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• Man's being is made of such strange stuff as to be partly akin to nature and partly not, at once natural and extranatural, a kind of ontological centaur, half immersed in nature, half transcending it.

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  Men, Centaurs, Half

  "History as a System". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, 1962.

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• The cynic, a parasite of civilization, lives by denying it, for the very reason that he is convinced that it will not fail.

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  Civilization, Failing, Cynicism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• That Marxism should triumph in Russia, where there is no industry, would be the greatest contradiction that Marxism could undergo. But there is no such contradiction, for there is no such triumph. Russia is Marxist more or less as the Germans of the Holy Roman Empire were Romans.

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  Russia, Triumph, Would Be

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset, Chapter XIV: Who Rules The World?, 1929.

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• If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

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  Wisdom, Destiny, Men

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• Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

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  Powerful, Thinking, Rights

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• Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

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  Men, History

  "History as a System". Book by José Ortega y Gasset, 1935.

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• The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

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  Men, Self, Complacency

  "The Revolt of the Masses". Book by José Ortega y Gasset. Chapter XI: "The Self-Satisfied Age", 1929.

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• Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

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  Today, Violence, Periods

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Surprise, Persist

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• Man is a fugitive from nature.

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  Men, Hunting, Fugitive

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.129, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

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  Inspiring, Men, Inspire

  "The Dehumanization of Art and Ideas about the Novel". Book by Jose Ortega y Gasset. Chapter "Taboo and Metaphor", 1925.

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• Love is exclusivity, selection.

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  Love Is, Exclusivity, Selection

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• tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

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  Eye, Reality, Appreciate

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