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- As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
- In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping…
- Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own…
- The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks…
- I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds…
- The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It…
- Odonianism is anarchism. Not the bomb-in-the-pocket stuff, which is terrorism, whatever name it tries to dignify itself with, not the social-Darwinist economic 'libertarianism' of the…
- We have been civilized for a thousand millennia. We have histories of hundreds of those millennia. We have tried everything. Anarchism, in all its forms,…
- All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
- I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side…
- If eternity had a season, it would be midsummer. Autumn, winter, spring are all change and passage, but at the height of summer the year…
- In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood.
- It did not matter, after all. He was only one man. One man's fate is not important. "If it is not, what is?" He could…
- What she needs, at least one thing she needs, is companionship. After all why should she eat? Who needs her to be alive? What we…
- If we can get that realistic feminine morality working for us, if we can trust ourselves and so let women think and feel that an…
- The Earth is beautiful, and bright, and kindly, but that is not all. The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel.
- There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the…
- The book itself is a curious artifact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very…
- Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
- If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And…
- If you want your writing to be taken seriously, don't marry and have kids, and above all, don't die. But if you have to die,…
- My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.
- We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.
- My soul is ten thousand miles wide and extremely invisibly deep. It is the same size as the sea, and you cannot, you cannot cram…
- ...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best; yet none of…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle