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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2f02100 | and out of the awareness of sameness grew the desire for differentiation. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d27a018 | you know that soft is stronger than hard, water stronger than rocks, love stronger than force. | patience persistence strength water | Hermann Hesse | |
| 80e2553 | This wind, into which I am climbing, is fragrant of beyonds and distances, of watersheds and foreign languages, of mountains and southern places. It is full of promise. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| bb63ed9 | Oh, if only it were possible to find understanding," Joseph exclaimed. "If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can be explained as development and progress and can also be seen as nothing but decadence and meaninglessness. Isn't there any .. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3dda057 | Quoth Siddhartha: "What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't find the time for finding?" | Hermann Hesse | ||
| daf57f8 | The words are not good for the secret meaning, everything always becomes a bit different, as soon as it is put into words, gets distorted a bit, a bit silly--yes, and this is also very good, and I like it a lot, I also very much agree with this, that this what is one man's treasure and wisdom always sounds like foolishness to another person. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 57e89f8 | Two thirds of my countrymen read this kind of newspaper, read things written in this tone every morning and every night, are every day worked up and admonished and incited, and robbed of their peace of mind and better feelings by them, and the end and aim of it all is to have the war over again, the next war that draws nearer and nearer, and it will be a good deal more horrible than the last. All that is perfectly clear and simple. Anyone c.. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| aeae52b | Mathematics, as far as he was concerned, was a Sphinx charged with deceitful puzzles whose cold malicious gaze transfixed her victims, and he gave the monster a wide berth. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 3d9e1c2 | You are to listen to the cursed radio music of life and to reverence the spirit behind it and to laugh at its distortions. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 75175be | We marked men were not at all worried about the shape the future would take. | Hermann Hesse | ||
| 604397d | everything I had so far experienced was mere chance ... my life still lacked a deep individual meaning of its own | Hermann Hesse | ||
| d513099 | When someone insults you, even murder is forgivable? I see. What you told me is very important. You insulted that innocent old man's life. So I changed one of your guns into a banana. You should savor your last meal as best you can. | inspirational | Hirohiko Araki | |
| 1e35ff4 | I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps. | friendship love | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| cb99991 | They were not victors, he and his kind, not in any way, they were the defeated still, for they had become like their "betters." -- | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 607de80 | The constrained body knows and values the freedom of the mind. | reading science-fiction | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 6b97751 | I, like Borges, think of heaven as something very like a library | heaven library | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 05b203c | Si continuas asi, si sigues huyendo, dondequiera que huyas siempre encontraras el peligro y el mal, porque es ella la que te lleva, la que elige tu camino. Eres tu quien ha de elegir. Tienes que hostigar a quien te hostiga. Tienes que perseguir al cazador. - Ogion | ursula-k-le-guin | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 5656ac9 | There seems to be a firewall in my mind against ideas expressed in numbers and graphs rather than words, or in abstract words such as Sin or Creativity. I just don't understand. And incomprehension is boredom. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 62ab222 | Ward: Which would you rather have, a National Book Award or a Hugo? Le Guin: Oh, a Nobel, of course. | Ursula K Le Guin | ||
| 2daf5f2 | THINKING about Homer, and it occurred to me that his two books are the two basic fantasy stories: the War and the Journey. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 5d685f1 | I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| b78e344 | Gercek yolculuk geri donustur. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| d060335 | God speaks, spirits speak, computers speak. Oracular ambiguity or statistical probability provides loopholes, and discrepancies are expunged by Faith. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| c7e52b5 | When asked to "define the difference between fantasy and science fiction," I mouth and mumble and always end up talking about the spectrum, that very useful spectrum, along which one thing shades into another. Definitions are for grammar, not literature, I say, and boxes are for bones. But of course fantasy and science fiction different, just as red and blue are different; they have different frequencies; if you mix them (on paper--I work.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| fd98a0e | She was the woman in the table. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 46eecca | Greed puts out the sun. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 6b20b59 | Do the people in this country approve of this war?" [...]. "Approve? You don't think we'd lie down and let the damned Thuvians walk all over us? Our status as a world power is at stake!" "But I mean the people, not the government. The... the people who must fight." "What's it to them? They're used to mass conscriptions. It's what they're for, my dear fellow! To fight for their country. And let me tell you, there's no better soldier on earth.. | patriotism soldier war | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 8d7e214 | No normal human being who had experienced time-slippage of even a few decades between League worlds would volunteer for a round trip of centuries. The Surveyors were escapists, misfits. They were nuts. Ten | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7594927 | Opos blepeis, Aren, mia praxe den einai, opos sukhna nomizoun oi neoi, san mia petra, pou kapoios sekonei kai petaei, kai petukhainei e astokhei, ki auto einai olo. Otan sekoneis aute ten petra, e ge ginetai elaphrotere kai to kheri pou ten basta ginetai barutero. Otan ten petas, ta kuklomata ton astron antapokrinontai, ki opou khtupesei e pesei to sumpan metaballetai. Me kathe praxe diakubeuetai e isorropia tou sunolou. Oi anemoi kai oi th.. | το-έπος-της-γαιοθ | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 7efe919 | We all have forests in our minds. Forests unexplored, unending. Each of us gets lost in the forest, every night, alone. Hidden | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| a546d92 | Minne oppaani ystavallisyydessaan minut johdattavat, / Mina seuraan, seuraan kevyesti / eika tomuun taaksemme / jaa ainuttakaan jalanjalkea. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| f4ebb67 | Was he leaving home, or going home? | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 2125f83 | A voice in the darkness said, 'You have come too far.' Arren answered it, saying, 'Only too far is far enough. | inspirational | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 56241df | What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to undertake. It is not easy. It is not a gift given, but a choice made, and the choice may be a hard one. The road goes upward toward the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 9ab447b | On the dock Yarrow stood and watched them go, as sailors' wives and sisters stand on all the shores of all Earthsea watching their men go out on the sea, and they do not wave or call aloud, but stand still in hooded cloak of grey or brown, there on the shore that dwindles smaller and smaller from the boat while the water grows wide between. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 8613d0f | you play the instrument you have. | life-lessons | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| c9ce052 | There were several completely mysterious electrical devices connected with the washstand, and the water valve did not cut off when you released the faucet but kept pouring out until shut off--a sign, Shevek thought, either of great faith in human nature, or of great quantities of hot water. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| dc9d6ae | We're a rough people, born of oak, as they say, here in the western land; tempers run high, weapons are always at hand. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 7c2cebc | Are there really people without resentment, without hate? she wondered. People who never go cross-grained to the universe? Who recognize evil, and resist evil, and yet are utterly unaffected by it? Of course there are. Countless, the living and the dead. Those who have returned in pure compassion to the wheel, those who follow the way that cannot be followed without knowing they follow it, the | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| e4c8b7b | She did feel it. A dark hand had let go its lifelong hold upon her heart. But she did not feel joy, as she had in the mountains. She put her head down in her arms and cried, and her cheeks were salt and wet. She cried for the waste of her years in bondage to a useless evil. She wept in pain, because she was free. What she had begun to learn was the weight of liberty. Freedom is a heavy load, a great and strange burden for the spirit to unde.. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 3abad25 | Death sentences are short and very, very manly. Life sentences aren't. They go on and on, all full of syntax and qualifying clauses and confusing references and getting old. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| ab3c9b6 | Under his feet he felt the hillroots going down and down into the dark, and over his head he saw the dry, far fires of the stars. Between, all things were his to order, to command. He stood at the center of the world. | magic power | Ursula K. Le Guin | |
| 4a8227c | Ethical counsel from the Under White Mountain people, far down the eastern coast of the Inland Sea, was not very well received. They advised: 'Do not fight these sick people, cure them with human behavior,' to which Rekwit responded tersely, 'You come up north here and do that. | Ursula K. Le Guin | ||
| 4bea2c5 | Arren] was proud of his lineage, but thought of himself as an heir of princes, one of the House of Enlad. Morred, from whom that house descended, had been dead two thousand years. His deeds were matter of legends, not of this present world. It was as if the Archmage had named him son of myth, inheritor of dreams. | arren earthsea lineage the-farthest-shore | Ursula K. Le Guin |