“Men who wish to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.”

You won’t discover the limits of the soul, however far you go.

Time is a game played beautifully by children.

Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony.

Day by day, your choices, your thoughts, your actions fashion the person you become.

Eyes and ears are bad witnesses to men having barbarian souls.

Mortals are immortals and immortals are mortals, the one living the others’ death and dying the others’ life.

Without injustices, the name of justice would mean what?

All things come into being by conflict of opposites.

Out of every one hundred men, ten shouldn’t even be there, eighty are just targets, nine are the real fighters, and we are lucky to have them, for they make the battle. Ah, but the one, one is a warrior, and he will bring the others back.

Realize that war is common and justice is strife, and that all things come into being and pass away through strife.

Deliberate violence is more to be quenched than a fire.

To be evenminded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Couples are wholes and not wholes, what agrees disagrees, the concordant is discordant. From all things one and from one all things.

Whoever cannot seek the unforeseen sees nothing for the known way is an impasse.

Dog bark at what they don’t understand.

My general plan is good, though in the detail there may be faults.

I shall certainly never do that again. He employs a long, cold burn, a quiet and impassioned accumulation of detail, with calm, wit and clarity.

Painting picture by picture, I followed the impressions my eye took in at heightened moments. I painted only memories, adding nothing, no details that I did not see. Hence the simplicity of the paintings, their emptiness.

When somebody criticise you, be happy and thankful because they have given you an opportunity to think about the matter more precisely and more detailed!

I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?

Energy enables a man to force his way through irksome drudgery and dry details and caries him onward and upward to every station in life.

What is the history of mighty kingdoms and nations, but a detail of the ravages and cruelties of the powerful over the weak?

I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn’t pick up just by surface reading.