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

“O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then.”

Moving Time Foolish

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Ursula K. Le Guin

Author, Poet, Essayist

Philosophical

“The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.”

Trying Mind Goodness

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Philosophical

“Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.”

Body Poison Excess

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Philosophical

“What is life without incompatible realities?”

Reality What Is Life

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Philosophical

“Darkness is only in the mortal eye, that thinks it sees, but sees not.”

Thinking Eye

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Philosophical

“At this point, realism is perhaps the least adequate means of understanding or portraying the incredible realities of our existence.”

Mean Reality Understanding

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Philosophical

“No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.”

Reality Pain Roots

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Philosophical

“For fantasy is true, of course. It isn't factual, but it is true. Children know that. Adults know it too, and that is precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons, because they are afraid of freedom.”

Children Challenges Dragons

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Philosophical

“You must come to terms with your wholeself. the wholeness which exceeds all our virtue and all our vice.”

Virtue Vices Term

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Philosophical

“All times are changing times, but ours is one of massive, rapid moral and mental transformation. Archetypes turn into millstones, large simplicities get complicated, chaos becomes elegant, and what everybody knows is true turns out to be what some people used to think.”

People Thinking Times Are Changing

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Philosophical

“The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and your destiny.”

Men Destiny Empathy

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Philosophical

“I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.”

Children Stories Imagination

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