Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.