Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality.

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.

History is the science of people.