The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.

Rancor is an outpouring of a feeling of inferiority.

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man.

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.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.