Having one king, one god, one belief, they can act single-mindedly. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently,… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If it were proven that there is no God there would be no religion. ...But also if it were proven that there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In our loss and fear we craved the acts of religion, the ceremonies that allow us to admit our helplessness, our dependence… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The Akan system is a spiritual discipline with spiritual goals, but they're exactly the same goals it seeks for bodily and ethical… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The revolution is in the individual spirit, or it is nowhere. It is for all or it is nothing. If it is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
By such literalism, fundamentalism, religions betrayed the best intentions of their founders. Reducing thought to formula, replacing choice by obedience, these preachers… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“You cannot take what you have not given, and you must give yourself. You cannot buy the Revolution. You cannot make the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Safety lies in catering to the in-group. We are not all brave. All I would ask of writers who find it hard… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The conduct of a new sedoretu is to some extent, and wisely, prescribed by custom and sanctioned by religion. The first night… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“The unknown," said Faxe's soft voice in the forest, "the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
What children don't understand, and can't understand until they grow up some, is how much the whole fabric and process of human… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“...I wore his blood for clothing, on my legs and thighs and hands: a dry, stiff, brown garment with no warmth in it.” — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Translation is entirely mysterious. Increasingly I have felt that the art of writing is itself translating, or more like translating than it is like… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Aeneas' mother is a star?" "No; a goddess." I said cautiously, "Venus is the power that we invoke in spring, in the garden, when things begin growing. And we call the evening star Venus." He thought it over. Perhaps having grown up in the country, among pagans like me, helped him understand my bewilderment. "So do we, he said. "But… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“Meaning - this is perhaps the common note, the bane I am seeking. What is the Meaning of this book, this event in the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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 why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“. . . chronosophy does involve ethics. Because our sense of time involves our ability to separate cause and effect, means and end. The baby, again, the animal, they don't see the difference between what they do now and what will happen because of it. They can't make a pulley, or a promise. We can. Seeing the difference between now… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
“If both you and your plane are on time, the airport is merely a diffuse, short, miserable prelude to the intense, long, miserable plane trip. But what if there's five hours between your arrival and your connecting flight, or your plane is late arriving and you've missed your connection, or the connecting flight is late, or the staff of another… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share
Between thought and spoken word is a gap where intention can enter, the symbol be twisted aside, and the lie come to be. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
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. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“I did a lot today. That is, I did something. The only thing I have ever done. I pressed a button. It took the… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
