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.

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

We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its urgency, 'here and now' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.

With morality we correct the mistakes of our instincts, and with love we correct the mistakes of our morals.

The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

There is no doubt; even a rejection can be the shadow of a caress”.

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