It would be a divine injustice to allow only those people who were learned and who had the time and money to buy expensive books to have access to true knowledge. (Location 304)
“When you are moving toward an objective,” said Petrus, “it is very important to pay attention to the road. (Location 438)
“It’s going to be worse that way,” he said, “because time isn’t something that always proceeds at the same pace. It is we who determine how quickly time passes.” (Location 455)
“The good fight is the one we fight because our heart asks it of us. In the heroic ages—at the time of the knights in armor—this was easy. There were lands to conquer and much to do. Today, though, the world has changed a lot, and the good fight has shifted from the battlefields to the fields within ourselves. (Location 617)
“When we renounce our dreams and find peace,” he said after a while, “we go through a short period of tranquillity. But the dead dreams begin to rot within us and to infect our entire being. We become cruel to those around us, and then we begin to direct this cruelty against ourselves. That’s when illnesses and psychoses arise. What we sought to avoid in combat—disappointment and defeat—came upon us because of our cowardice. And one day, the dead, spoiled dreams make it difficult to breathe, and we actually seek death. (Location 640)
we always know which is the best road to follow, but we follow only the road that we have become accustomed to.” (Location 659)