Psychology Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

29 Psychology quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

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Ursula K. Le Guin invites readers to wander the landscapes of thought. In twenty‑nine thoughtful statements, she links imagination, empathy, and the subtle currents that shape our mental life.

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I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.

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Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.

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“Old age isn’t a state of mind. It’s an existential situation.”

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“I think we all have archipelagoes in our minds.”

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Claude Levi-Strauss has been a great source of fruitful irritation to my mind.

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“The unconscious mind is coextensive with the universe.”

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“They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths of possibility, liked to question…

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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too…

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The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of…

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“If memory remains sound and the thinking mind retains its vigor, an old intelligence may have extraordinary breadth and depth of understanding.”

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“An irrelevant and poignant sensation of pleasure rose in him, like a tree that grew up and flowered all in one moment…

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“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each one of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone.”

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“We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden”

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“When mind uses itself without the hands it runs the circle and may go too fast… The hand that shapes the mind…

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“It is our Puritanism, insisting that discipline means repression or punishment, which confuses the subject. To discipline something, in the proper sense…

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And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid…

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Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when…

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If I had to pick a hero, it would be Charles Darwin--the size of his mind, which included all that scientific curiosity…

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Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his brief…

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“The body is an arrangement in spacetime, a patterning, a process; the mind is a process of the body, an organ, doing…

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“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate…

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“In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can't lull you with surging music or deafen you with screeching laugh tracks…

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“It is because he comes from so far away that nothing can seperate us. Nothing, no distances, no years, can be greater…

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“A book won't move your eyes for you like TV or a movie does. A book won't move your mind unless you…

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“This weight of verifiable place-event-phenomenon-behavior makes the reader forget that he is reading a pure invention, a history that never took place…

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“The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,…

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The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device,…

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“As for the doctor's mind, though intelligent and certainly well-meaning, it was a jumble of intellectual artifacts even more confusing than all…

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“It is our suffering that brings us together. It is not love. Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate…

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For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely…

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“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The…

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“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane…

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“The author is not impartial. Dystopia is not tragedy.”

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Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be.

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I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.

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“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the…

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To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by…

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“Hector had no virtue?” “Of course he did. He won all his battles, till the last one.” “We all do,” Aeneas remarked.”

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“I was willing to believe him that most modern writing was trash, on the evidence that so much old writing was trash; but I…

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“Can women operate as women in a male institution without becoming imitation men?”

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