The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desires—the more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Channel your passion into lasting results

Ow. Stop that. It hurts my brain.Isn't your brain distributed through your entire body?See why I want you to stop with the doublethink?-Sergeant Schlock & Captain Tagon

My child will bear those scars forever, ” Tilv said angrily. “And if he isn’t a fool, perhaps your child will learn from them, ” Neferre returned calmly.

I want to lie down on the bench then, or better yet, on the grass, rest on something living and see if I can hear the dead underneath.

That was his tactic. Make them want know something they never wanted to know. Lure them into the trap of knowledge.

You must remember that democracy is made up not only of the executive, but the legislature and the judiciary.

Big fish eat small fish with as much right as they have power.

Geology gives us a key to the patience of God.

It never hurts to have friends around, so that's why you'd form a crew.

Nature was tough, it could be dangerous, but unlike Dr. Cable or shay, or peris-unlike people in general-it made sense. The problems it threw at you could be solved rationally.

There was no violence, no speed. It moved to the rhythm of an elder dance, putting all the rituals of the world to shame. Black, silver, gold and moon-opal, night and sea, fire, earth, air and water.