Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

The task must be to banish from mankind's thought the idea that anybody has the right to use force against righteousness, against justice, against mutual agreements.

... the inexorable lesson of centuries: suffering must be borne; there is no way out.

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.