Man is a fugitive from nature.

A fascinating mystery of nature is manifested in the universal fact of hunting: the inexorable hierarchy among living beings. Every animal is in a relationship of superiority or inferiority with regard to every other. Strict equality is exceedingly improbable and anomalous.

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

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

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

"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.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.