“Katczinsky says it is all to do with education - it softens the brain.”

“Do you actually control what your brain says?”

“If one's organism is… the preeminent advantage, and the source of all others, education is the second. The best made brain would be a total loss without it…”

“Memories do not always soften with time; some grow edges like knives.”

“Say and do something positive that will help the situation; it doesn’t take any brains to complain.”

“Education isn't just about feeding the brain. Art and music feed the heart and soul.”

“How can you pass laws about things that nobody knows?"
"They do it all the time," says Hayden. "That's what law is: educated guesses at right and wrong.”

“No, we are not related. No, we are not related. Do I walk? Have I feet still? I raise my eyes, I let them move round, and turn myself with them, one circle, one circle, and I stand in the midst. All is usual. Only the Militiaman Stanislaus Katczinsky has died. Then I know nothing more.”

“Don't believe all the absurdity that skeptics say about bats not being birds, other untruths such as the Bible saying that the world is flat, and the mockery of Israel's judicial system. Every one of these weak arguments has rational explanations for those who are prepared to soften their hearts and listen.”

“Quantum interference—the crosstalk among similar quantum states—knits the different versions of your brain together."
"You're saying that my consciousness extends across multiple cosmi," I said. "That's a pretty wild statement."
"I'm saying all things do," Orolo said. "That comes with the polycosmic interpretation. The only thing exceptional about the brain is that it has found a way to use this.”