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.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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.

We cannot put off living until we are ready.

If the human intellect functions, it is actually in order to solve the problems which the man's inner destiny sets it.

We need to study the whole of history, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.