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Things Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
- Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it. Weapons are unhappy…
- I think," Tehanu said in her soft, strange voice, "that when I die, I can breathe back the breath that made me live. I can…
- There is neither source nor end, for all things are in the Center of Time. As all the stars may be reflected in a round…
- From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
- Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together.
- If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even.…
- Fantasy is not antirational, but pararational; not realistic but surrealistic, a heightening of reality. In Freud's terminology, it employs primary not secondary process thinking. It…
- A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — 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
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle