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.

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

When you are fed up with the troublesome present, you take your gun, whistle for your dog, go out to the mountain, and, without further ado, give yourself the pleasure during a few hours or a few days of being "Paleolithic."

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

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

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

The trend towards pure art betrays not arrogance, as is often thought, but modesty. Art that has rid itself of human pathos is a thing without consequence.