These are the only genuine ideas, the ideas of the shipwrecked. All the rest is rhetoric, posturing, farce.

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.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

This leads us to note down in our psychological chart of the mass-man of today two fundamental traits: the free expansion of his vital desires, and, therefore, of his personality; and his radical ingratitude towards all that has made possible the ease of his existence. These traits together make up the well-known psychology of the spoilt child.

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

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.