More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The sunlights differ, but there is only one darkness.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
I hope you are never victims, but I hope you have no power over other people.
All knowledge is local, all truth is partial. No truth can make another truth untrue. All knowledge is part of the whole knowledge. Once you have seen the larger pattern, you cannot go back to seeing the part as the whole.
We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable - but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.
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.
The creative adult is the child who has survived.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
All of us have to learn how to invent our lives , make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people .
