We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

This is the gravest danger that today threatens civilization: State intervention; the absorption of all spontaneous social effort by the State, that is to say, of spontaneous historical action, which in the long run sustains, nourishes, and impels human destinies.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.