hana77
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“Highdrake said that to make love is to unmake power.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
“The Finder” (p. 59)
Earthsea Books, Tales from Earthsea (2001)
Ursula K. Le Guin Hainish Cycle
Source: Hainish Cycle, The Left Hand of Darkness (1969), Chapter 18 “On the Ice” (p. 249)
“No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge”
Ursula K. Le Guin book Four Ways to Forgiveness
"A Man of the People", p. 140
Four Ways to Forgiveness (1995)
Context: “Lines and colors made with earth on earth may hold knowledge in them. All knowledge is local, all truth is partial,” Havzhiva said with an easy, colloquial dignity that he knew was an imitation of his mother, the Heir of the Sun, talking to foreign merchants. “No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is a part of the whole knowledge. A true line, a true color. Once you have seen the larger patttern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole."
“We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.”
Ursula K. Le Guin (1929–2018) American writer
in an interview http://www.viceland.com/int/v15n12/htdocs/ursula-k-le-guin-440.php?country=uk in Vice Magazine. <br class="br">Context: Belief in heaven and hell is a big deal in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and some forms of doctrinaire Buddhism. For the rest of us it’s simply meaningless. We don’t live in order to die, we live in order to live.
“It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”
Henry Adams (1838–1918) journalist, historian, academic, novelist
As quoted in American Heritage (December 1955), p. 44
Context: I disagree with my brother Charles and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. These facts have nothing to do with the case and should not have been allowed to interfere with just penalties. It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
“You are willing to die, you coward, but not to live.”
Hermann Hesse book Steppenwolf
Source: Stepní vlk (Steppenwolf)
“We do not choose the hour of our trials, only how we will meet them.”
Source: https://twitter.com/TheStoicEmperor/status/1321543306166169600
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: Notes of a Dirty Man (Zápisky starého prasáka)
“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism
“I would rather be a devil in alliance with truth, than an angel in alliance with falsehood.”
Ludwig Feuerbach book The Essence of Christianity
Source: The Essence of Christianity (1841)
“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Variant: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.
Source: Les Misérables
“I have such a horror of telegrams that ask me how I am!! I always want to reply dead.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Quoted in A. R. Orage, "Talks with Katherine Mansfield at Fontainebleau," http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:XAR4yD3zcOIJ:www.gurdjieff-bibliography.com/Current/KM_07_2006_02_ORAGE_Talks_with_KM.doc The Century Magazine (November 1924) <br class="br">Context: Could we change our attitude, we should not only see life differently, but life itself would come to be different. Life would undergo a change of appearance because we ourselves had undergone a change of attitude.
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Source: Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
“I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Journal entry (14 October 1922), published in The Journal of Katherine Mansfield (1927)
Context: By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun, all that we mean when we speak of the external world. I want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious, direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others.