“Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 42
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“Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it, And—which is more—you'll be a Man, my son!”
“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science.”
“The human spirit, driven by an invincible force, will never cease to ask: What is beyond?”
“There is nothing to answer: there are spaces, times or magnitudes without limits.”
“If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”
“When you feel a conflict, try to go the Oankali way. Embrace difference.”
“You’re truly free for the first time. What could be more difficult than that?”
“The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from custom.”