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.

Human vitality is so exuberant that in the sorriest desert it still finds a pretext for glowing and trembling.

History is the science of people.

And this is the simple truth - that to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.

The heart of man does not tolerate an absence of the excellent and supreme.

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

To wonder is to begin to understand.