1,226 Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin

Where, then, is Truth?" declaimed Bedap, and yawned."In the hill one happens to be sitting on," said Tirin.

A fear of using the imagination is very deep in America.

So rest a while, we can talk in the cool of the evening. Or the cool of the morning. There 's seldom as much hurry as I used to think there was." -HawkWho had been ArchmageThe Other Wind

Imagination, working at full strength, can shake us out of our fatal, adoring self-absorption and make us look up and see- with terror or with relief- that the world does not, in fact, belong to us at all.

They have no gods. They work magic, and think they are gods themselves. But they are not. And when they die, they (...) become dust and bone, and their ghosts whine on the wind a little while till the wind blows them away. They do not have immortal souls.

For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted.

As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.

Fakat güç, sadece ihtiyaç olduğunda ortaya çıkmaz: Bilgi de olması gerekir

Tehlikenin gücü, gölgenin ışığı kuşattığı gibi kuşatacağını hiç düşünmedin mi? Sihir, zevk için veya övülmek için oynadığımız bir oyun değildir. Şunu düşün: Bizim Sanatımız'daki her söz, her hareket ya hayır ya da şer için yapılır. Bir şey söylemeden veya bir şey yapmadan önce, ödemen gereken bedeli bilmen gerekir.