There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation