Therefore, anthropology, the study of man, should be the core of every other discipline. Someday, it will. - Carlos Castañeda

He said that I was a man. And like any man I deserved everything that was a man’s lot — joy, pain, sadness and struggle — and that the nature of one’s acts was unimportant as long as one acted as a warrior. Lowering his voice to almost a whisper, he said that if I really felt that my spirit was distorted I should simply fix it — purge it, make it perfect — because there was no other task in our entire lives which was more worthwhile. Not to fix the spirit was to seek death, and that was the same as to seek nothing, since death was going to overtake us regardless of anything. He paused for a long time and then he said with a tone of profound conviction, “To seek the perfection of the warrior’s spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood.

« — Как ты думаешь, мне удастся еще раз побывать в том самом конкретном городе? — Меня привел туда ты. Так что я не знаю. Вернее, знаю, но объяснить не могу. Вернее, могу, но не хочу. Тебе просто следует выждать и самостоятельно выяснить, в чем тут дело.»

The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of a beggar. The warrior lowers his head to no one, but at the same time, he doesn't permit anyone to lower his head to him. The beggar, on the other hand, falls to his knees at the drop of a hat and scrapes the floor for anyone he deems to be higher; but at the same time, he demands that someone lower than him scrape the floor for him.