By speaking, by thinking, we undertake to clarify things, and that forces us to exacerbate them, dislocate them, schematize them. Every concept is in itself an exaggeration.

What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones.

The world is the sum-total of our vital possibilities.

Barbarism is the absence of standards to which appeal can be made.

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

Today violence is the rhetoric of the period.

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