José Ortega y Gasset

When one is hunting, the air has another, more exquisite feel as it glides over the skin or enters the lungs, the rocks acquire a more expressive physiognomy, and the vegetation becomes loaded with meaning.

— José Ortega y Gasset

Conversation is the socializing instrument par excellence, and in its style one can see reflected the capacities of a race.

— José Ortega y Gasset

The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted.

— José Ortega y Gasset