Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask.But you're the Answerers!You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?No––To exhibit the perfect u...
Truth is a matter of the imagination.
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
This was a great magic. Festin had no more performed it than has any man who in exile or danger longs for the earth and waters of his home, seeing and yearning over the doorsill of his house, the tabl...
The word power has two different meanings. There is power to: strength, gift, skill, art, the mastery of a craft, the authority of knowledge. And there is power over: rule, dominion, supremacy, might,...
The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.
The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself.
So maybe the difference isn't language. Maybe it's this: animals do neither good nor evil. They do as they must do. We may call what they do harmful or useful, but good and evil belong to us, who chos...
She'll die.' 'Aye. That's a consequence of being alive.
Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women.
Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.
Old Age Is Not for the Young.
Not even need and love can defeat fate...
Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing
Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always.
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...
In diversity is life and where there's life there's hope, was the general sum of his creed, a modest one to be sure.
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.