Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

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.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

Hating someone is feeling irritation by their mere existence.

Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.