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«The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little. If this machine gave you the truth immediately, you would not recognize it,»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
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devotion, discovering, immediately, machine, scripture, spinning wheel, spins, The wheel, wheel
«The misogyny that shapes every aspect of our civilization is the institutionalized form of male fear and hatred of what they have denied and therefore cannot know, cannot share: that wild country, the being of women.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aspect, denied, institutionalize, institutionalized, misogyny, shapes, wild
«As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.»
«The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity in both»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
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Religion
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combine, expansion, identity, in other words, militant, mystic, social action, The Search
«It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.»
«Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.»
«There are no right answers to wrong questions.»
Author: Ursula K. LeGuin
(Writer)
«To oppose something is to maintain it.»
«In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.»
«Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it had to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.»
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