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

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

Liberalism is that principle of political rights, according to which the public authority, in spite of being all-powerful, limits itself and attempts, even at ist own expense, to leave room in the state over which it rules for those to live who neither think nor feel as it does, that is to say as do the stronger, the majority.

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

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

In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.