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Everybody should practice simple and virtuous living . They should never seek recourse to manipulative tendencies.
Fear |
Worship is more for effect, a play acted with the pit in view; there is no sincerity.
You are like the rocks on the seashore that unflinchingly face the beating of the waves. The rock does not move; the wave will not stop. This predicament should end. Awake and avail yourselves of this unique chance.
Upanishads or The Upanishads NULL
Where there is joy there is creation. Where there is no joy there is no creation: know the nature of joy. - Upanishad
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.
Fear |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
Civilization | Fear |
Ursula Le Guin, fully Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
You have to help another person. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. To be God you have to know what you're doing. And to do any good at all, just believing you're right and your motives are good isn't enough.
Classical modern science described only the surface of things, a single dimension of reality. And the more dogmatically science treated it as the only dimension, as the very essence of reality, the more misleading it became. Today, for instance, we may know immeasurably more about the universe than our ancestors did, and yet, it increasingly seems they knew something more essential about it than we do, something that escapes us.
The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
Fear |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Men have big claims and small projects.
Fear | Inclination | Weakness |
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
We promise to provide much give few.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Those who fear men love the laws.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Women cannot understand that there are men disinterested in them.
Vauvenargues, Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues NULL
Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.