Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The more alternatives, the more difficult the choice.
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict -- alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence.