"As a man's real power grows and his……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do..."
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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344 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Ursula K. Le Guin has 344 quotes on this site.
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Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.
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As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve…
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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Almost everything is double like that for adolescents; their lies are true and their truths are lies, and their hearts…
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Virginity is now a mere preamble or waiting room to be got out of as soon as possible; it is…
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It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it…
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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Great self-destruction follows upon unfounded fear.
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Scientific truth will out, you can't hide the sun under a stone.
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Almost anything carried to a logical extreme becomes depressing.
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In the tale, in the telling, we are all one blood. Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite…
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Skill in writing frees you to write what you want to write. It may also show you what you want…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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Allow the world to live as it chooses, and allow yourself to live as you choose.
— Richard Bach
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
— Russell Banks
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It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.
— Tony Blair
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Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true…
— Caleb Carr
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The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or…
— Isabel Allende
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Our society is so abnormal that the normal man never dreams of having the normal occupation of looking after his…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Because a person chooses to leave their home country and come to the United States does not necessarily mean they…
— Jeff Sessions
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Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses…
— Abraham Lincoln
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To me there never has been a higher source of honour or distinction than that connected with advances in science.…
— Humphry Davy
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Our youth can not understand why society chooses to criminalize a behavior with so little visible ill effect or adverse…
— Richard M. Nixon
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