top of page
More

"Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story."
Author Name
Personal Development

"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The root system supports the branches."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The cops picked me up for attempted murder. I can still see the detectives, licking their chops. Thought they had me. Two weeks later, the cat came out of a coma and told the truth. I was innocent."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility."
Author Name
Personal Development

"You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Author Name
Personal Development

"That taxes may be the ostensible cause is true, but that they are the true cause is as far remote from truth as light from darkness."
Author Name
Personal Development
More


"What good is power when you're too wise to use it?"
Personal Development


"She could not have been born gray. Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Her anger, timidity, brashness, gentleness, all were elements of her mixed being, her mixednature, dark and clear right through, like Baltic amber. She could not exist in the gray people's world. She had not been born."
Personal Development


"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
Personal Development


"Books, you know, they're not just commodities. The profit motive often is in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art-the art of words."
Personal Development


"I think men mostly have to learn to be anarchists. Women don't have to learn.Vokep shook his head grimly. "It's the kids, he said. "Having babies. Makes 'em propertarians. They won't let go. He sighed. "Touch and go, brother, that's the rule. Don't ever let yourself be owned."
Personal Development


"A psychopathy on Anarres was rational behavior on Urras."
Personal Development


"He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitude which alone transcends it."
Personal Development


"This was the way he had to go, he had no choice. He had never had any choice. He was only a dreamer."
Personal Development


"The artist deals with what cannot be said in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words."
Personal Development


"The sleeper turns his back on everyone."
Personal Development
bottom of page