“And time after time, his smile became more similar to the ferryman’s, became almost just as bright, almost just as thoroughly glowing with bliss, just as shining out of thousand small wrinkles, just as alike to a child’s, just as alike to an old man’s. Many travelers, seeing the two ferrymen, thought they were brothers. Often, they sat in the evening together by the bank on the log, said nothing and both listened to the water, which was no water to them, but the voice of life, the voice of what exists, of what is eternally taking shape. And it happened from time to time that both, when listening to the river, thought of the same things, of a conversation from the day before yesterday, of one of their travelers, the face and fate of whom had occupied their thoughts, of death, of their childhood, and that they both in the same moment, when the river had been saying something good to them, looked at each other, both thinking precisely the same thing, both delighted about the same answer to the same question.” Siddhartha

Thou seest how few be the things, the which if a man has at his command his life flows gently on and is divine. Book II

“We are full of fears and anxieties over our position, which makes us doubly cruel and dangerous.” Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality