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More Quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The worst walls are never the ones you find in your way. The worst walls are the ones you put there .
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Our roots are in the dark; the earth is our country. Why did we look up for blessing -- instead of around, and down? What hope we have lies there. Not in the sky full of orbiting spy-eyes and weaponry, but in the earth we have looked down upon. Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.
To have a choice at all is to be privileged.
Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.
To hear, one must be silent.
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.
Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.
Change is freedom, change is life. It's always easier not to think for oneself. Find a nice safe hierarchy and settle in. Don't make changes, don't risk disapproval, don't upset your syndics. It's always easiest to let yourself be governed. There's a point, around age twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities. Those who build walls are their own prisoners. I'm going to go fulfil my proper function in the social organism. I'm going to go unbuild walls.
