God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. - Thomas Henry Huxley

Siéntate ante los hechos como un niño pequeño, disponte a abandonar cualquier idea preconcebida, sigue a la naturaleza dondequiera y a cualesquiera abismos a los que te lleve, o no aprenderás nada

The result is that we have been able to commit, in cold blood and over long periods of time, acts of which the brutes are capable only for brief moments and at the frantic height of Rage, desire, or fear. Because they use and worship symbols, men can become idealists; and, being idealists, they can transform the animal's intermittent greed into the grandiose imperialism of a Rhodes or a JPMorgan; the animal's intermittent love of bullying into Stalinism or the Spanish Inquisition; the animal's intermittent attachment to its territory into the calculated frenzies of nationalism.

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.