“The troubles of modern life come from being divorced from nature.”

“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”

“I am afraid a monster is grown that will devour all of us. Yet we must fight him.”

“The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.”

“Agitation from the other side of the desk.Nonow you must take this phlegmatically. You had hoped you would qualify. You had feared you would not. Actually, both hope and fear are weaknesses. You kn...”

“Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, ...”

“War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up some failure on the part of the adults.”

“War is the echo that never dies. No society strives for war, they are always tricked into it.”

“How can our words ever truly be our own? Since we started growing all we've been taught is to care how we represent our persona and how we should communicate appropriately and how we portrait ourse...”