Where man goes, trees die; or, to paraphrase Tacitus, we make a desert and call it progress.
When you have nothing to pray for, that’s when Luck hears you. If
When there’s no social pressure behind it, respectful behavior becomes a decision, an individual choice.
When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast.... The hand that shapes the mind into clay or written word slows thought to the gait of things and lets it be subject to...
When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. Do they expect students not to be anarchists? he said. What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the...
When at last I learned forgetting, I learned it very quickly and all too well.
When asked to define the difference between fantasy and science fiction, I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the spectrum, that very useful spectrum, along which one thing shades into a...
Whatever language we speak, before we begin a sentence we have an almost infinite choice of words to use. A, The, They, Whereas, Having, Then, To, Bison, Ignorant, Since, Winnemucca, In, It, As . . ....
What we call 'evil' is produced by civilization, its constraints and repressions, deforming the spontaneous, free self-expression of the personality.
What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and t...
What is the sense of giving a boundary to all... of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply?
What is more arrogant than honesty?
What is it like to return from the dead? Not easy. Not for the one who returns, nor for his people. The place he occupied in their world has closed up, ceased to be, filled with accumulated change, ha...
What is evil? asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. A web we men weave. Ged answered.
What good seeking the safe course, on a journey such as this? There are senseless courses, which I shall not take; but there is no safe one. Streth
What a comfort the past is, Mimen said, when the future offers none.
Well, we think that time 'passes,' flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is...
Well, this. That we’re ashamed to say we’ve refused a posting. That the social conscience completely dominates the individual conscience, instead of striking a balance with it. We don’t cooperate — we...
We're in the world, not against it. It doesn't work to try to standoutside things and run them, that way. It just doesn't work, it goes against life. There is a way but you have to follow it. The worl...