Christopher

“There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.”
― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“WHEN NEWCOMERS to the hunting game suddenly find themselves possessed of a lively imagination and start to draw on that imagination for facts, the result, as a rule, is amusing. If the story they tell is a “tall one,” as it generally is, the old-timer will sit and listen and his only comment will be a laconic “Oh yes!”
― John F. Burger, Horned Death

“Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace. Facing the immense complexity of modern social and industrial conditions, there is need to use freely and unhesitatingly the collective power of all of us; and yet no exercise of collective power will ever avail if the average individual does not keep his or her sense of personal duty, initiative, and responsibility.”
― Theodore Roosevelt, The Complete Works of Theodore Roosevelt

“In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. By comparison, the brains of other apes require only 8 per cent of rest-time energy.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind