John P

“...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage”
― Philip Jose Farmer

“The primitive tribes permitted far less individual freedom than does modern society. Ancient wars were committed with far less moral justification than modern ones. A technology that produces debris can find, and is finding, ways of disposing of it without ecological upset. And the schoolbook pictures of primitive man sometimes omit some of the detractions of his primitive life - the pain, the disease, famine, the hard labor needed just to stay alive. From that agony of bare existence to modern life can be soberly described only as upward progress, and the sole agent for this progress is quite clearly reason itself.”
― Robert Pirsig in 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance'

“He was justifying his existence, than which life can do no greater; for life achieves its summit when it does to the uttermost that which it was equipped to do.”
― Jack London

“But despite the fact that the doctors treated him, bled him, and gave him medicines to drink -- he recovered.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace