“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”
“The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.”
“Takan had never truly defeated Zyid. Zyid had given his life to calm Takan's soul.”
“...given sufficient ignorance, one can doubt evolution....”
“No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.”
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient”