Thus they both set a fatal trap for the believer: if you believe in God you can’t believe in evolution, and vice versa. But this is rather like saying if you believe in Tuesday you can’t believe in ar...
This principle, getting it out of place, off-limits, the basic principle of swearing, I understand and approve.
This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.
This is morally problematic when personal decision is confused with personal opinion.
This has been going on for two or three millennia. That is an amazingly long time for anything to mean anything to anybody.
They knew that their anarchism was the product of a very high civilization, of a complex diversified culture, of a stable economy and a highly industrialized technology that could maintain high produc...
There’s another option. You can consider the reader, not as a helpless victim or a passive consumer, but as an active, intelligent, worthy collaborator. A colluder, a coillusionist.
There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken. A man can endure the entire weight of the universe for eighty years. It is unrea...
There are souls, he thought, who's umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as the enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus...
There are a limited number of plots (some say seven, some say twelve, some say thirty). There is no limit to the number of stories.
Then suddenly he was aware of a man clothed in white who watched him through the falling water of the fountain.
The world is always new, said Coro Mena, however old its roots.
The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.
The unknown, said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is basedon. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action. If it were proven th...
The unknown, the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action.
The unexpected is what makes life possible.
The truth is that as a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing but does only and wholly what he must do.
The tongue they speak there is not like any spoken in the Archipelago or the other Reaches, and they are a savage people, white-skinned, yellow-haired, and fierce, liking the sight of blood and the sm...
The sleeper dreamed.
The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is seen as having any end, it will never truly begin. We can't stop here. We must go on. We must tak...