Yasiru

“The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace.... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.”
― Thomas Hobbes

“Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.”
― Olaf Stapledon, The Seed and the Flower

“‎Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.”
― Voltaire

“There is indeed a great deal of futility amongst the human race which we do not commonly see, for it all forms part of our illusion; but let a man be much annoyed by something that others do, so that he is separated from them and has to leave them, and looks back at what they are doing, and he'll see at once all manner of whimsical absurdities that he had not noticed before; and Ramon Alonzo in the shade of his oak, waiting for the noon to go by, grew very contemptuous of the attitude that the world took up towards shadows.”
― Lord Dunsany, The Charwoman's Shadow