Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Life serves as the medium through which we experience divine presence and guidance.
In this quote, Jose Ortega Y Gasset suggests that life itself is a profound narrative in which moments of enlightenment and divine communication arise. The 'burning bush' symbolizes these moments of clarity and revelation, representing the intersection of the divine with our everyday existence, urging us to pay attention and listen to the deeper messages life presents.
Themes
LifeDivineGuidanceRevelationExistence
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about finding purpose in life.
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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.
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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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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.
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