Avoid the tyranny of the reasonable voice...it will guarantee a complacency of never trying anything adventurous.
Interpretation
Don't let practical thinking prevent you from pursuing adventurous opportunities.
This quote emphasizes the importance of embracing adventure and creativity over solely adhering to what is deemed reasonable or practical. J. Michael Straczynski warns that strictly following reasonable voices can lead to a stagnant life where individuals miss out on exciting and fulfilling experiences, advocating for the pursuit of the unknown despite potential risks.
In practice
In a motivational speech to encourage creativity in the workplace.
There is a greater darkness than the one we fight. It is the darkness of the soul that has lost its way. The war we fight is not against powers and principalities, it is against chaos and despair. Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.
The point of mythology or myth is to point to the horizon and to point back to ourselves: This is who we are; this is where we came from; and this is where we're going. And a lot of Western society over the last hundred years - the last 50 years really - has lost that. We have become rather aimless and wandering.
The past tempts us, the present confuses us, and the future frightens us. And our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast terrible in-between. But there is still time to seize that one last fragile moment.
When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree by the river of truth, and tell the whole world - No, you move.
When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.
Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.
Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
Fear of ideas makes us impotent and ineffective.
Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs.
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