Mwanandeke Kindembo quote: “To overcome oneself, one must reconcile and end the battle between heart and mind.”

“It's the age-old battle between mind and heart, which seldom want the same thing.”

Dan Brown book Inferno

Source: Inferno

“One can't fight with oneself, for this battle has only one loser.”

Mario Vargas Llosa book Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

Source: Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter

“Reconcile with your heart and mind then allow your soul to penetrate through the veil of all illusions.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

Titon Rahmawan

“The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.”

Jerry Coyne (1949) American biologist

Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. xiii

“Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it means one always has some battle to wage against oneself.”

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778) Genevan philosopher

Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi?
Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Julie_ou_la_Nouvelle_H%C3%A9lo%C3%AFse/Sixi%C3%A8me_partie#Lettre_VII._R.C3.A9ponse (French), Sixième partie, Lettre VII Réponse (1761)
Julie, or The New Heloise http://books.google.com/books?id=oN6_B_AFhcwC (English), Part Six, Letter VII Response, pg 560