The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.