War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Madness in method, that's genius