Ursula K. Le Guin — Philosophical Quotes

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Ursula K. Le Guin Quotes

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Philosophical

“Our model of the cosmos must be as inexhaustible as the cosmos. A complexity that includes not only duration but creation, not only being but becoming, not only geometry but ethics. It is not the answer we are after, but only how to ask the question.”

Answers Cosmos Duration

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Philosophical

“I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.”

Artist Atheist Liars

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Philosophical

“Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

Matter Imagination

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Philosophical

“To oppose something is to maintain it.”

Law Of Attraction

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Philosophical

“Maybe when you meet the people you are supposed to meet you know it, without knowing it.”

People Knows Knowing

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Philosophical

“The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.”

Hard Dragons

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Philosophical

“Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?”

Function Arise

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Philosophical

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”

Funny Sleep Humor

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Philosophical

“The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else.”

People Thinking Injustice

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Philosophical

“Primitiveness and civilization are degrees of the same thing. If civilization has an opposite, it is war.”

War Civilization Opposites

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Philosophical

“We decided that it was no good asking what is the meaning of life, because life isn't an answer, life is the question, and you, yourself, are the answer.”

Healing Asking Meaning Of Life

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Philosophical

“It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?”

Eye Science Technology

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