Nikhil Jain

“He looked like a bored boy deciding whether to poke a dead fish.”
― R. Scott Bakker, The Warrior Prophet

“We can be sure, he [Kant] says, that anything we shall ever experience must show the characteristics affirmed of it in our a priori knowledge, because these characteristics are due to our own nature, and therefore nothing can ever come into our experience without acquiring these characteristics.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“All knowledge, we find, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs, and if these are rejected, nothing is left.”
― Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy

“I despised men who accepted their fate. I shaped mine twenty times and had it broken twenty times in my hands.”
― Dorothy Dunnett, The Game of Kings