If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.
I've been looking only at what's to be done next and forgetting why we're doing it.
I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don’t have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. It’s the kids, he said. Having babies. Makes ’em propertarians. They won’t let go. He sighed....
I stood benumbed. The man was like an electric shock--nothing to hold on to and you don't know what hit you.
I do not say that artists cannot be seers, inspired: that the
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the...
Hemos llegado, desde una gran distancia el uno al otro. Siempre lo hemos hecho. A través de grandes distancias, a través de años, a través de abismos de casualidad. Porque él viene de tan lejos, nada...
He had no answer. He had no right to all the grace and bounty of this world, earned and maintained by the work, the devotion, the faithfulness of its people. Paradise is for those who make Paradise. H...
Dragons think we are amusing. But they remember Erreth-Akbe. They speak of him as if he were a dragon, not a man.
Don’t WORry if OTHers disaGREE DON’T WORry if OTHers DISagree Don’t WORry if OTHers DISaGREE
Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not. In the Sight of Meshe there is no darkness. Therefore those that call upon the darkness† are made fools of and spat out from the...
But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!
Bu yüzden geçmiş dört yıla bakan Shevek, onları yitirilmiş olarak değil, Takver'le yaşamlarında kurdukları yapının bir parçası olarak gördü. Zamana karşı çalışmaktansa zamanla birlikte çalışmanın iyi...
I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.
There are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat.
But the human being likes to be challenged, seeks freedom in adversity.
Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It employs archetype...
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean jo...
En ese curso de Historia Aplicada que seguí cuando me preparaba para el Allá Lejos, decían que la esclavitud nunca dio resultado. Que era antieconómica.De acuerdo, pero esto no es esclavitud, mi queri...