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Nobody Before The Pythagorean Had Thought That Mathematical Relations Held The Secret Of The Universe. Twenty-five Centuries Later, Europe Is Still Blessed And Cursed With Their Heritage. To Non-european Civilizations, The Idea That Numbers Are The Key To Both Wisdom And Power, Seems Never To Have Occurred.

War Is A Ritual, A Deadly Ritual, Not The Result Of Aggressive Self-assertion, But Of Self-transcending Identification. Without Loyalty To Tribe, Church, Flag Or Ideal, There Would Be No Wars.

The Life We Led Was A Proof Of Man's Capacity For Adaptation.i Think That Even The Condemned Souls In Purgatory After Time Develop A Sort Of Homely Routine.that Is ,by The Way, Why Most Prison Memoirs Are Unreadable.the Difficulty Of Conveying To The Reader An Idea Of A Nightmare World From Which He Has Emerged Makes The Author Depict The Prisoner's State Of Mind As An Uninterruped Continuity Of Despair.he Fears To Appear Frivolous Or To Spoil His Effect By Admitting That Even In The Depths Of Misery Cheerfulness Keeps Breaking In.

...the Temptation, Which Consisted Of A Single Word Written On The Cemetary Of The Defeated: Sleep.

Coincidence May Be Described As The Chance Encounter Of Two Unrelated Causal Chains Which - Miraculously, It Seems - Merge Into A Significant Event.