We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.
Jose Ortega y GassetThis leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.
Jose Ortega y GassetIn 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