All Daniel Quinn Quotes
- Within your culture as a whole, there is in fact no significant thrust toward global population control. The point to see is that there never… Control
- The theory I'm putting forward here is that storytelling is a genetic characteristic in the sense that early human hunters who were able to organize… Able
- Animism is not a belief system, but a worldview: The world is a sacred place and we are part of it. The factuality of this… All
- The world is not in any sense in danger from itself. The world is in fact not in any danger at all. It is we… All
- If we continue...to consume the world until there's no more to consume, then there's going to come a day, sure as hell, when our children… Children
- No story is devoid of meaning ... If you know how to look for it. Devoid
- Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as… All
- If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all. All
- Our lifestyle is evolutionarily unstable--and is therefore in the process of eliminating itself in the perfectly ordinary way. Eliminating
- You shouldn't have to settle for rabbits if what you want is deer Deer
- And every time the Takers stamp out a Leaver culture, a wisdom ultimately tested since the birth of mankind disappears from the world beyond recall. Beyond
- Thinkers aren't limited by what they know, because they can always increase what they know. Rather they're limited by what puzzles them, because there's no… Always Increase
- The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or… Among
- We're straying from the path of salvation because we remember that we once belonged to the world and were content in that belonging. Belonged
- There is no one right way to live. Funny
- But why? Why do you need prophets to tell you how you ought to live? Why do you need anyone to tell you how you… Anyone
- five severed fingers do not make a hand Fingers
- Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of… Background
- In effect, you're saying that if you knew how you oughtt to live, then the flaw is man could be controlled. If you knew how… Actually One
- Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise… Been
- Yes,I'm afraid you're right. Trial and error isn't a bad way to learn how to build an aircraft,but it can be a disastrous way to… Afraid
- I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. Absolutely
- In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. Course
- The world of the Takers is one vast prison, and except for a handful of Leavers scattered across the world, the entire human race is… Across
- ....he began to speak to me, not in the jocular way of visitors to the menagerie but rather as one speaks to the wind or… Anyone