Traces

You find traces everywhere--the songlines of wisdom across the landscape of this world. Here are just a few:

One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten.
--R. Scott Bakker

I shall never tire of underlining a concise little fact which these superstitious people are loath to admit--namely, that thought comes when "it" wants, not when "I" want ...
--Friedrich Neistzche

The day I was born I made my first mistake, and by that path have I sought wisdom ever since.
--the Mahabharata