Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect; they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

The will to be oneself is heroism

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

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