And it occurred to me that what we professors think of as a 'brilliant student' is nothing but a student who is enthusiastically converted to whatever idiotic ideas we've been teaching them.
Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros.~Sel Menach
A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.
A broken clock is right two times a day.
To understand who a person really was, what his or her life really meant, the speaker for the dead would have to explain their self-story–what they meant to do, what they actually did, what they regre...
It's so easy, when you never meet people, when you never know the Earth itself... it's easy to forget why Earth is worth saving. Why the world of people might be worth the price you pay.
There were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.
The seed of doubt was there, and it stayed, and every now and then sent out a little root. It changed everything, to have that seed growing. It made Ender listen more carefully to what people meant, i...
The cruelest, narrowest, most evil people will always rise to power because they'll always be the ones most willing to wrap themselves in the crescent flag and murder people in God's name.
It’s often the ideas that sound most absurd and counterintuitive at first that later cause fundamental shifts in the way we see the world.
It was all your genes that made us geniuses, mom. said peter. we sure didn't get any from dad.i heard that. father said, not looking up from the news that was being displayed on the table while he ate...
Your ego-depletion seems problematically difficult to assuage.
You own nothing?
Will he always come between us?Yes, said Ela. Like a bridge he'll come between us, not a wall.
When the messenger won't tell you what the hell the message is, my trigger finger gets twitchy. Dismissed.
Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.
We're all trying to decide whether your scores up there are a miracle or a mistake.A habit.
We spend our lives guessing at what’s going on inside everybody else, and when we happen to get lucky and guess right, we think we understand. Such nonsense. Even a monkey at a computer will type a wo...
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it.
Valentine had long ago observed that in a society that expected chastity and fidelity, like Lusitania, the adolescents who controlled and channeled their youthful passions were the ones who grew up to...