His life was over. The conflicts which tore his mind would no longer trouble him. His fears, his torments, his loves and his hatreds all lay in the past and only oblivion lay before him.
The note took long moments to fade and, when it had at last died away, there was an absolute hush over the world, the milling millions were still, there was an air of expectancy. And then the White Lo...
It happens to many like that, he said. I have seen them. But you have to show them so much injustice first... Nobody wants to believe that the world is cruel—or that one’s own kind are cruel. Not to k...
If we remain adaptable, we remain strong. If we force others to accept our traditions and values, we ultimately grow weak…
I know not which I prefer the look of—those who attack us or that which defends us!
I have brought evil to many places, he said, but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerer...
Gods are but metaphors. said Orland Frank. As metaphors they might be very acceptable - but they should never be allowed to become beings in their own right.
He cursed the malevolent Gods for the black day when idly, for their amusement, they had spawned men.
We live in a world where many kinds of regression dignify themselves with the mantle of progress.
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and debilitating terror.
Once, it was said, the whole city had been sentient, the most intelligent being in the universe, but now it was senile and even its memories were fragmented.
In an infinite universe, all may become real sooner or later. Yet it is always up to mankind to make real what it really wishes to be real.
By means of our myths and legends we maintain a sense of what we are worth and who we are. Without them we should undoubtedly go mad.
You Mabden seem to think that happiness must be bought with misery... It is not easy for Vadhagh to understand that. We believe -- believed -- that happiness was a natural condition of reasoning being...
When I had first been hurled into the world of the 1970s I had thought I found Utopia. And now I was discovering that it was only a Utopia for some. Shaw wanted a Utopia which would exist for all.
The sentiment may perceive and love the universe, but the universe cannot perceive and love the sentiment. The universe sees no distinction between the multitude of creatures and elements which compri...
The past is a script we are constantly rewriting.
The mask of kindly patronage had dropped away to show the hatred and the fear beneath.
His little black-and-white cat with the black-and-white wings would fly through the rooms sometimes, but most often it would be discovered sleeping somewhere where it was most inconvenient for it to s...
Three swift swords for the sisters three;The first shall be of ivory;The second sword's forged of rarest gold;The third shall be cut from a granite fold.The first sword's name is Just Old Man;And the...