I am myself and what is around me, and if I do not save it, it shall not save me.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist.

Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

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

On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it's own essence, whatever its concrete employment and content maybe. Human life was to put itself at the service of culture because only thus would it become charged with value. From which it would follow that human life, our pure existence was, in itself, a mean and worthless thing.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.