Quotes from book
A Time of Changes

Name: A Time of Changes
Author: Robert Silverberg

A Time of Changes is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg. It won the Nebula Award for that year, and was also nominated for the 1972 Hugo and Locus Awards.

“You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 8 (p. 25)

“Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 31 (p. 110)

“Love of others begins with love of self.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 35 (p. 126)

“All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 31 (p. 110)

“All my life,” said Schweiz, “has been a quest for plausible reasons to believe in what I know to be irrational.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 53 (p. 168)

“The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 27 (p. 89)

“My only regrets were for poor tactics, not for faulty principles.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 70 (p. 204)

“How intricately our loins are linked to our minds, and how tricky a thing it is when we embrace a woman while pretending she is another!”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 25 (p. 85)

“But in this logging camp in the mountains I came to understand that kings are nothing but men set high. The gods do not anoint them, but rather the will of men, and men can strip them of their lofty rank.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 17 (p. 62)

“What value is lineage to a drowning man?”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 40 (p. 142)

“It is peaceful here. I am far from the fishmongers and the drainers and the wine-peddlers and all those others whose songs of commerce clang in the streets of cities. A man can think; a man can look within his soul, and find those things that have been the shaping of him, and draw them forth, and examine them, and come to know himself.”

Robert Silverberg book A Time of Changes

Source: A Time of Changes (1971), Chapter 7 (p. 21)

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