"Stoicism is about the *domestication* of emotions, not……" — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

More Domestication Quotes

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• Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools… — Carl Sagan
• And there are my cats, engaged in a ritual that goes back thousands of years, tranquilly licking themselves after the… — William S. Burroughs
• Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the… — Hans Zinsser
• It is to be regretted that domestication has seriously deteriorated the moral character of the duck. In a wild state,… — Isabella Beeton
• Next to the striking of fire and the discovery of the wheel, the greatest triumph of what we call civilization… — Max Lerner
• Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through… — Gregory Berns
• We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful… — John Zerzan
• Education is not the taming or domestication of the soul's raw passions - not suppressing them or excising them, which… — Allan Bloom
• Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a… — Jared Diamond
• When women hear those words, an old, old memory is stirred and brought back to life. The memory is of… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. — Ambrose Bierce
• Why do more than 40 percent of Americans think that the Universe began after the domestication of the dog? — Richard Dawkins

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