The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

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.

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

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

"Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.