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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 6c37ca0 | The world... is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perfect in every moment... | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 6a147a6 | Searching means having a goal, but finding means being free, being open, having no goal ... because in striving for your goal there are many things you do not see, which are directly in front of your eyes. | life-truths meaning | Hermann Hesse | |
| 77dc921 | By degrees, however, he fashioned for himself out of this tendency a philosophy that was actually serviceable to life. He gained strength through familiarity with the thought that the emergency exit stood always open, and became curious, too, to taste his suffering to the dregs. If it went too badly with him he could feel sometimes with a grim malicious pleasure: "I am curious to see all the same just how much a man can endure. If the limit.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 7321bce | My life had become weariness. It had wandered in a maze of unhappiness that led to renunciation and nothingness; it was bitter with the salt of all human things; yet it had laid up riches, riches to be proud of. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| e3e6ea6 | Perfect music has its cause. It arises from equilibrium. Equilibrium arises from righteousness, and righteousness arises from the meaning of the cosmos. Therefore one can speak about music only with a man who has perceived the meaning of the cosmos. | equilibrium music | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0ae2be6 | Seeking nothing, emulating nothing, breathing gently, he moved in an atmosphere of imperishable calm, impresihable light, inviolable peace. | siddhartha spirituality | Hermann Hesse | |
| 0d639e7 | And so Gotama wandered into the town to obtain alms, and the two Samanas recognized him only by his complete peacefulness of demeanor, by the stillness of his form, in which there was no seeking, no will, no counterfeit, no effort - only light and peace. | hermann-hesse siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| 9d98600 | seriousness, young man, is an accident of time | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 90aef0d | Oh, was not all suffering time, were not all forms of tormenting oneself and being afraid time, was not everything hard, everything hostile in the world gone and overcome as soon as one had overcome time, as soon as time would have been put out of existence by one's thoughts? | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 146333c | lm lmZhr `lm `br , wn Trz thybn wsh`rn `br l~ qS~ Hd . bl n sh`rn wjsmn nfsh `br@ . | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 2f8efd3 | It would be wholly impossible for me to say whether this cloudy, silently disturbed, unraveled sky is mirrored in my soul or the reverse, whether or not I read the image of my own inner life in this sky. Sometimes everything is so completely uncertain! There are days when I am convinced that no man on earth can recognize certain moods of air and cloud, certain tones of color, certain fragrances and movements of moisture as finely, as exactl.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 822223c | Charm me. Furiously. Torment me. In detail. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| fbdeb91 | Ephemeral, highly ephemeral is the world of formations; ephemeral, highly ephemeral are our clothes and hairstyles, and our hair and our bodies themselves. | siddhartha | Hermann Hesse | |
| fcf8f4b | Like a wallflower he stayed in the background waiting for someone to fetch him, someone more courageous and stronger than himself to tear him away and force him into happiness. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| c5c7ce1 | Do you remember how many breads you have eaten in your life? | Hirohiko Araki | ||
| f0d8bf3 | You have knowledge, and I have skill, and between us we have..." "We have the Ring of Erreth-Akbe." "Yes, that. But I thought also of another thing between us. Call it trust... That is one of its names. It is a very great thing. Though each of us alone is weak, having that we are strong, stronger than the Powers of the Dark." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 10ee2dc | Ged stood sick and haggard. He said at last, "Better I had died." "Who are you to judge that, you for whom Nemmerle gave his life?--You are safe here. You will live here, and go on with your training. They tell me you were clever. Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b74bbbb | Dangerous!" Vea laughed radiantly. "What an utterly marvellous compliment! Why am I dangerous, Shevek?" "Why, because you know that in the eyes of men you are a thing, a thing owned, bought, sold. And so you think only of tricking the owners, of getting revenge -"..." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6b4dd80 | Honor can exist anywhere, love can exist anywhere, but justice can exist only among people who found their relationships upon it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fcb6219 | It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7f2c611 | A friend. What is a friend, in a world where any friend may be a lover at a new phase of the moon? Not I, locked in my virility: no friend to Therem Harth, or any other of his race. Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand's touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6826b12 | He was a hard shrewd jovial politician, whose acts of kindness served his interest and whose interest was himself. His type is panhuman. I had met him on Earth, and on Hain, and on Ollul. I expect to meet him in Hell. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 798d86d | Had his fear, in fact, been the personal fear that Selver might having learnt the racial hatred, reject him and treat him not as you but as one of them. | one-of-them selver | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 1f3ba12 | On a world where a common table implement is a little device with which you crack the ice that has formed on your drink between drafts, hot beer is a thing you come to appreciate. | humour science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 747ca62 | Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. | foretellers prophecies | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| fd5706e | but you're not a traitor, you've merely been the tool of one. I don't punish tools. They do harm only in the hands of a bad workman. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 619d0d8 | We didn't talk about problems, or parents, or automobiles, or ambitions. We talked about life....And the sea was there, forty feet away and getting closer, and the sky over the sea, and the sun going down the sky. And it was cold, and it was the high point of my life. I'd had high points before. Once at night walking in the park in the rain in autumn. Once out in the desert, under the stars, when I turned into the earth turning on its axis.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a6cf354 | The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4cc1865 | Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we know it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we have not known. | interpretation subconscious-mind | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| e209b90 | Which is better off, a lizard basking in the sun or a philosopher? | intellectualism philsophy | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| d7c212a | Would you give up the craft of your hands, and the passion of your heart, and the hunger of your mind, to buy safety? | fantasy fantasy-fiction passions safety | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| cd40d54 | A woman has her Juno, just as a man has his Genius; they are names for the sacred power, the divine spark we each of us have in us. My Juno can't "get into" me, it is already my deepest self. The poet was speaking of Juno as if it were a person, a woman, with likes and dislikes: a jealous woman. The world is sacred, of course, it is full of gods, numina, great powers and presences. We give some of them names--Mars of the fields and the war,.. | gods mythology spirituality worship | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4193dea | The natural, proper, fitting shape of the novel might be that of a sack, a bag. A book holds words. Words hold things. They bear meanings. A novel is a medicine bundle, holding things in a particular, powerful relation to one another and to us. | power | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6b30dee | I never thought before," said Tirin unruffled, "of the fact that there are people sitting on a hill, up there, on Urras, looking at Anarres, at us, and saying, 'Look there's the Moon.' Our earth is their Moon; our Moon is their earth." "Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned. "In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin." | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fb1d951 | Let age be age. Let your old relative or old friend be who they are. Denial serves nothing, no one, no purpose. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7f06cc1 | They all know it is there, all the people of Omelas. Some of them have come to see it, others are content merely to know it is there. They all know that it has to be there. Some of them understand why, and some do not, but they all understand that their happiness, the beauty of their city, the tenderness of their friendships, the health of their children, the wisdom of their scholars, the skill of their makers, even the abundance of their h.. | happiness misery omelas | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6ef730a | I don't believe in Darwin's theory of evolution. I accept it. It isn't a matter of faith, but of evidence. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b0a06a1 | there are things that outweigh comfort, unless one is an old woman or a cat. | comfort | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| a21f764 | On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui. Oh, the French diseases of the soul. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6b35531 | He laid his hands on her head, pushing back the hood. He began to speak. His voice was soft, and the words were in no tongue she had ever heard. The sound of them came into her heart like rain falling. She grew still to listen. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 57abe81 | The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained, the vaster the appetite for more. | greed growth growth-ideology power satisfaction tao | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4700c24 | I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c63dffd | Orr had a tendency to assume that people knew what they were doing, perhaps because he generally assumed that he did not. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d4b2f41 | Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. | Ursula K. Le Guin |