The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Life is the external text, the burning bush by the edge of the path from which God speaks.

Under the species of Syndicalism and Fascism there appears for the first time in Europe a type of man who does not want to give reasons or to be right, but simply shows himself resolved to impose his opinions.

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.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.