Part Nine “Into the Gyre”, Chapter iii “The Miracle of the Loom” (p. 429; catchphrase frequently repeated)
(1987), BOOK TWO: THE FUGUE
Source: Weaveworld
As quoted in C. F. Main & Peter J. Seng, Poems (Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1973), p. 3
“Someone needs to mention what may be lost.”
"Neil Postman Ponders High Tech" at Online Newshour : Online Forum (17 January 1996)
Context: Someone needs to mention what may be lost. Of course, one of the problems is that what I would judge to be a negative consequence, someone else might see as a positive consequence. For example, telephones in automobiles seem to me a very bad idea. So does spending a lot of hours "communicating" on the Internet when one could use that time reading Cervantes' Don Quixote.
“You can never get enough of what you don't need, because what you don't need won't satisfy you.”
Joy and Mercy http://www.lds.org/ensign/1991/11/joy-and-mercy, Dallin H. Oaks, November 1991
“There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.”
Source: Moominsummer Madness
“The travel writer seeks the world we have lost — the lost valleys of the imagination.”
"Bwana Vistas," Harper’s (August 1985), reprinted in Corruptions of Empire (1988).
“You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.”
Variant: You can never get enough of what you don’t really need.
“We need to understand what we can do and how. Otherwise we will never do it.”
Preface, p. x
Building Entopia - 1975
“Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine.”
"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)<!-- Reprinted in The Virgin Island Daily News (29 October 1964) http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=757&dat=19641029&id=rIcwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lEQDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6379,1764784 with the permission of Reader's Digest -->
Context: I feel sorry for the man who has never known the bracing thrill of taking a stand and sticking to it fearlessly. Moral courage has rewards that timidity can never imagine. Like a shot of adrenaline, it floods the spirit with vitality.
