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

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

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.

Love is exclusivity, selection.

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

Towns are full of people, houses full of tenants, hotels full of guests, trains full of travelers, cafés full of customers, parks full of promenaders, consulting-rooms of famous doctors full of patients, theatres full of spectators, and beaches full of bathers. What previously was, in general, no problem, now begins to be an everyday one, namely, to find room.

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