"Writers are the engineers of human souls."

-- Joseph Stalin

#Writing Quotes #Soul Quotes #Humans Quotes

“The meaning of life is to live a meaningful life.”
“The longest tyranny that ever sway'd Was that wherein our ancestors betray'd Their free-born reason to the Stagirite [Aristotle], And made his torch their universal light. So truth, while only one suppli'd the state, Grew scarce, and dear, and yet sophisticate.”
“The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.”

Source : Morris Kline (1964). “Mathematics in Western Culture”, p.382, Oxford University Press
“Anyone who tells you size doesn't matter has been seeing too many small knives.”
“Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And donâ€™t ever rush into print.”

Source : Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.191, Faber & Faber
“Freedom from obsession is not about something you do; it's about knowing who you are. It's about recognizing what sustains you and what exhausts you. What you love and what you think you love because you believe you can't have it.”

Source : FaceBook post by Geneen Roth from Jul 08, 2014
“You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.”
“I run every day now. I never ran before.”

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