People with blood group B or O have a greater resistance to smallpox than do people with blood group A. Guns, Germs And Steel

A man’s maturity: that is to have rediscovered the seriousness he possessed as a child at play. Beyond Good and Evil

They’re afraid because they have never accepted themselves. A community consisting exclusively of people afraid of the unknown in themselves! They all feel that the rules they live by are no longer valid, that they’re following outdated commandments; neither their religions nor their morality, nothing is suited to what we need. For a century and more, Europe has done nothing but study and build factories! They know exactly how many grams of powder it takes to kill someone, but they don’t know how to pray to God, they don’t even know how to be contented for an hour at a time. Demian

Everything you value is a product of unimaginably lengthy developmental processes, personal, cultural, biological. 12 Rules For Life: An Antidote To Chaos