People have ideas. They live in their ideas, do you understand? And those ideas, whatever they happen to be, make all the difference.
Most ignorance is by choice, you know, and so ignorance is very telling about what really matters to people.
It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.
It is a form of grace to become nothing but a task-Hjalmar Nederland from Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge
Happy and angry. Happily angry. Everything, all at once. That's life, boy. You just keep getting fuller, until you burst and Allah takes you and casts your soul into another life later on. And so ever...
Freedom in an injust system is no freedom at all.
Buddhism spreads by people converting out of their own wish for peace and right action. But power condenses around those willing to use force.
Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.
And yet the whole meaning of the universe, its beauty, is contained in the consciousness of intelligent life. We are the consciousness of the universe, and our job is to spread that around, to go look...
And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn’s stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told the...
People six hundred years later are still complaining about violence inflicted on their ancestors. I think you will find that in most of those cases, there are fresh or current problems that are being...
Why are we here?''To make more love.''All right, fair enough. But how do we best love this world Allah gave us? We do it by learning it! [...] If you try to understand things, if you look at the world...
When in doubt, just do it. Try something and observe the results. Good-enough decision algorithm
To her data analysis was the ugly love child of science and Kafka,
They needed to be an independent state, sovereign perhaps, semiautonomous at least. Semiautonomy might be enough, given the realities of the two worlds; semiautonomy would justify calling it a free Ma...
They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.
Then it’s a matter of troubleshooting, grasping the bull by the horns, seizing the nettle, coping and hoping, damning torpedoes, and trying any old thing, including the engineer’s solution, which is t...
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, alive
Reality is mathematical, as long as you understand that uncertainty and contingency can be mathematically described, without them becoming any more certain.
Maybe fear and want never went away. We are more than food and drink and shelter. It seems like those should be the crucial determinants, but many a well-fed citizen is filled with rage and fear. They...