KeithQuotes

“The mighty words of the proud are paid in full with mighty blows of fate, and at long last those blows will teach us wisdom.”
― Sophocles, Antigone

“I don’t want to have the terrible limitation of those who live merely from what can make sense. Not I: I want an invented truth.”
― Clarice Lispector, Água Viva

“I am not nothing in the sense of emptiness, but I am the creative nothing, the nothing out of which I myself as creator create everything.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“The start of freedom from anger is stillness of the mouth when the heart is troubled. The middle is a stillness of the mind when there is a small agitation of the soul. The end is an unchanging calm beneath the breath of polluted winds.”
― John Climacus, The Ladder of Divine Ascent