The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent.

Life is a series of collisions with the future.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.