211 Quotes

“Let me adapt some of Nietzsche's words and say this to you: "To become wise, you must learn to listen to the wild dogs barking in your cellar.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

“In wine is truth, and the truth had all come out, "that is, all the uncleanness of his coarse and envious heart"!”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

“Power can't be separated from its history. A choice can't be taken in isolation from its context. Power is the ability to set the terns of the riddle. To arrange the rewards and punishments for which the choice is judged.”
― Seth Dickinson, The Tyrant Baru Cormorant