The most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: Those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection, mere buoys that float on the waves.

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.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Biography - a system in which the contradictions of a human life are unified.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.