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Hunting Quotes by Jose Ortega y Gasset
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- "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…
- The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.
- 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…
- When you are fed up with the troublesome present, take your gun, whistle for your dog, and go out to the mountain.
- Man is a fugitive from nature.
- 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…
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- Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them. — John James Audubon
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- People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. — Otto von Bismarck
- But time growing old teaches all things. — Aeschylus
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