The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.

The masses think that is is easy to flee from reality, when it is the most difficult thing in the world.

Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights. Noblesse oblige. 'To live as one likes is plebeian; the noble man aspires to order and law.'

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

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

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 individual point of view is the only point of view from which one is able to look at the world in its truth.