"In so far as one denies what is,……" — Ursula K. Le Guin
"In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void."
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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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More Compulsion Quotes
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I found myself compelled - like this weird, shameful compulsion - to draw cute animals.
— Lynda Barry
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Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Grooming oneself with all the crazed compulsion of an under-exercised lab rat in order to hook a rich man and…
— Julie Burchill
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My compulsion to always be working has become less strong and my current business is purely down to this enormous…
— John Cleese
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If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory…
— Eckhart Tolle
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life…
— Albert Schweitzer
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Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Those who are asking for more government interference are asking ultimately for more compulsion and less freedom.
— Ludwig von Mises
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I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The free man is not he who defies the rules ... but he who, recognizing the compulsions inherent in his…
— Bernard Iddings Bell
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