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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes about Hunting

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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

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Stupid, Vacation, Hunting

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.

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

Man is a fugitive from nature.

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

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."

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Dog, Gun, Hunting
"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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Religious, Men, Hunting
Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hunting, Animal, Facts
Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hunting, Perfection, Progress

"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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset
Hunting, Men, Historical
Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.125, Wilderness Adventures Press

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