In particular, while natural selection favors both males and females that leave many offspring, the best strategy for doing so may be different for fathers and mothers. That generates a built-in conflict between the parents, a conclusion that all too many humans don’t need scientists to reveal to them. We make jokes about the battle of the sexes, but the battle is neither a joke nor an aberrant accident of how individual fathers or mothers behave on particular occasions. It is indeed perfectly true that behavior that is in a male’s genetic interests may not necessarily be in the interests of his female co-parent, and vice versa. That cruel fact is one of the fundamental causes of human misery. Why Is Sex Fun?: The Evolution of Human Sexuality

“And—such is my thinking, o Exalted One—no one attains deliverance through teaching!” Siddhartha

You may fetter my leg, but my will not even Zeus himself can overpower. Discourses

A light here required a shadow there. To the Lighthouse