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

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

The mass believes that it has the right to impose and to give force of law to notions born in the café.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Triumph cannot help being cruel.