Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Pro...
If only customs were logical. If only the rules were as simple as "Don't do anything that will hurt others." If that were the only rule, I’d have at least a fifty percent chance of getting it right. I would, for example, ask myself whether saying t...
Other folk thought the Rage was simple bloodlust, a berserk savagery that neither knew nor cared what its target was, and so it was when it struck without warning. But when a hradani gave himself to it knowingly, it was as cold as it was hot, as rati...
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant...
They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked higher than the pyramids; they had killed themselves over...
Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he i...
According to Adam One, the Fall of Man was multidimensional. The ancestral primates fell out of the trees; then they fell from vegetarianism into meat-eating. Then they fell from instinct into reason, and thus into technology; from simple signals int...
The simple truth is that love is a part of who we are, not something that others "give" to us if we're worthy of it. We're taught that if we just find that right person, and that person "falls in love" with us, everything will be fine. We're not taug...
There isn't a simple person anywhere in this world.
Love is fuel for the soul.
Boredom is for the selfish.
Simple ingredients prepared in a simple way - that's the best way to take your everyday cooking to a higher level.
If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!
Our family, from day one, has only sought the simple truth in this matter.
I lead a simple life. I get residuals. I have a family; we're doing alright.
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
I'm not allowed to get a big head, I've still got to do the simple things in life.
A simple dream, a simple thought Can generate actions to shake the world.
In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
