I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.