Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.
Jose Ortega Y GassetRead
An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Living without purpose is worse than death.
This quote by Jose Ortega Y Gasset suggests that an existence devoid of meaningful work or purpose is more detrimental than death itself. It emphasizes the importance of engagement and contribution to life, indicating that being 'unemployed' in a broader sense signifies a lack of fulfillment that undermines the very essence of living.
Themes
ExistencePurposeLifeEngagementFulfillment
In practice
Example use cases
In a motivational speech about pursuing passion and meaning in work.
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All quotes →"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.
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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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