Yuri Olesha Quotes

#1. One's worst enormities remain within, and it is only one's vulgar commonplaces of error and folly that turn into murders and suicides, treasons, infidelities, and betrayals.

Lewis Mumford

#2. How can one become enlightened? One can, because one is enlightened - one just has to recognize the fact.

Rajneesh

#3. Power proves the man".

Solon

#4. I needed to write, to express myself through written language not only so that others might hear me but so that I could hear myself.

Gabor Mate

#5. Writers are engineers of human souls.

Yury Olesha

#6. Some of the funniest moments I've ever experienced have been in the midst of tragic situations in my life.

Sarah Polley

#7. Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

Evan Osnos

#8. To say that an idea is necessary is simply to affirm that we cannot conceive the contrary; and the fact that we cannot conceive the contrary of any belief may be a presumption, but is certainly no proof, of its truth.

Thomas Huxley