Battle? There's always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

He tells us 'The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.'

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

"I demonstrate the terrible danger of a gliding, passionless mediocrity,[...]I show you that entire civilizations can do this thing. I give you eons of life which slips gently toward death without fuss or stirring, without even asking 'Why?'"

May thy knife chip and shatter.

Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.

Things we do without thinking — there's the real danger.