Civilized Man says: I am Self, I am Master, all the rest is other--outside, below, underneath, subservient. I own, I use, I explore, I exploit, I control. What I do is what matters. What I want is wha...
— Ние се крием от шингите. Но се крием също и от онова, което сме били. Разбираш ли ме, Фалк? Живеем добре в нашите Къщи — достатъчно добре. Но позволяваме да ни управлява страхът. Било е време, когат...
We're not outside the world... We are the world. We're its language. So we live and it lives. You see? If we don't say the words, what is their in our world?
To use the enemy's weapon is to play the enemy's game...speak the truth and hear the truth.
To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. — CHUANG TSE : XXIII
There's a saying, Aeneas said: Keep an eye on Greeks when they offer gifts. He spoke wryly. Horses, particularly.
There is no more subversive act than the act of writing from a woman's experience of life using a woman's judgment.Prospects for Women in Writing 1986
There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus.
The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven t...
The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.
The child stared at her or at nothing, trying to breathe, and trying again to breathe, and trying again to breathe.
Students are intense people, they laugh and cry, they break down and rebuild.
Solo en el silencio la palabra, solo en la oscuridad la luz, solo en la muerte la vida; el brillo del halcón brilla en el cielo vacío.
One keeps oneself neat out of mere decency mere sanity, awareness of other people. And finally even that goes, and one dribbles unashamed.
Let us do without soldiers. The joy built upon successful slaughter is not the right kind of joy; it will not do; it is fearful and it is trivial.
It is not until an act occurs within the landscape of the past and future that it is a human act. Loyalty, which asserts the continuity of past and future, binding time into a whole, is the root of hu...
If nobody teaches us the words, the thoughts, we stay ignorant. If nobody shows a little child, two, three years old, how to look for the way, the signs of the path, the landmarks, then it gets lost i...
I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.
Fatos não são mais sólidos, coerentes, perfeitos e reais do que pérolas. Mas ambos são sensíveis.
Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra...