In the pun, two strings of thought are tangled into one acoustic knot.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. Boredom sets into boring minds. The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

...the crimes of violence committed for selfish, personal motives are historically insignificant compared to those committed ad majorem gloriam Dei, out of a self-sacrificing devotion to the flag, a leader, a religeous faith or political conviction.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition.