Why are men afraid of women?If your strength is only the other's weakness, you live in fear, Ged said.Yes; but women seem to fear their own strength, to be afraid of themselves.Are they ever taught to...
What it made me think about above all is how incredibly much we learn from our birthday to last day - from where the horsies live to the origin of the stars. How rich we are in knowledge, and in all t...
Well, he said slowly, sometimes there's a passion that comes in its springtime to ill fate or death. And because it ends in its beauty, it's what the harpers sing of and the poets make stories of: the...
We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain.
Varlığın pınarları, hayattan daha derindir, ölümden de...
To see that your life is a story while you're in the middle of living it may be a help to living it well. It's unwise, though, to think you know how it's going to go, or how it's going to end. That's...
Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it m...
They think if people can possess enough things they will be content to live in prison.
The trouble is, women have to be absolutely first class to get where third-class men get.
The future, in fiction, is a metaphor.A metaphor for what?If I could have said it non-metaphorically, I would not have written all these words, this novel; and Genly Ai would never have sat down at my...
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
The Veksi are an angry species. Their social life consists largely of arguments, recriminations, quarrels, fights, outbursts of fury, fits of the sulks, brawls, feuds, and impulsive acts of vengeance.
So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was. -Hawk
Shevek, meeting her eyes, knew that he had committed an unforgivable fault in forgetting her and, . . .
She didn't even ask me if I was going to go on flying. She knew I would. I don't understand the people who have wings and don't use them. I suppose they're interested in having a career. Maybe they we...
Orr was not a fast reasoner. In fact, he was not a reasoner. He arrived at ideas the slow way, never skating over the clear, hard ice of logic, nor soaring on the slipstreams of imagination, but slogg...
Odo had not tried to renew the basic relationships of music, when she renewed the relationships of men. She had always respected the necessary. The Settlers of Anarres had left the laws of man behind...
My lord, do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so; do nothing because it seems good to do so; do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way. There
It's a queer business, making oneself blind.
If civilization has an opposite, it is war.