Quotes of: Essay Keyword

If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance.

The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt

The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude with regards children in the raw as a sort of raw material which we must handle.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things.

On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.

The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction

Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence.

Language & Silence: Essays on Language, Literature & the Inhuman

Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.

A Lateral View: Essays on Culture and Style in Contemporary Japan

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

Mortals and Others 1: American Essays 1931-35

There are no free lunches in philosophy any more than in real life.

Mind in a Physical World: An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation

There is no such thing as notoriety in the United States these days, let alone infamy. Celebrity is all.

For the Sake of Argument: Essays and Minority Reports

Too often, we pour the energy needed for recognizing and exploring difference into pretending those differences are insurmountable barriers, or that they do not exist at all.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

As a Black lesbian mother in an interracial marriage, there was usually some part of me guaranteed to offend everybody's comfortable prejudices of who I should be.

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

We're so young. We can't, we MUST not loose this sense of possibility because in the end, it's all we have.

The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

People who believe their god loves them unconditionally are less able to be controlled through divine terrorism.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

My faith is a tool I employ, a metaphorical context I find apt, but it is inert until placed in a hand that needs it.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

The Hermit is an important tarot card with much to tell us, but he tends not to be so welcome around the bonfire.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I am not interested in wishing hard and having the Universe provide all I need without any work on my part.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Mythology didn't cease to exist and be useful to Pagans when we gained digital watch technology.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft