It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
No man, no power, can bind the action of wizardry or still the words of power. For they are the very words of Making, and one who could silence them could unmake the world.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance and power of words and actions in shaping reality.
Ursula K. Le Guin's quote highlights the idea that the capacity to express oneself and take action is fundamental to existence and creation. Words hold immense power, and to silence them would be to disrupt the very fabric of reality. This reflects a philosophical stance that underscores the connection between language, thought, and the nature of being.
Themes
WordsPowerCreationActionSilenceReality
In practice
Example use cases
Use this quote in a speech about the importance of communication in leadership.
More from Ursula K. Le Guin
All quotes →In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. “Do they expect students not to be anarchists?” he said. “What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
Similar quotes
Just because you believe in something does not mean that it is true.
Albert EinsteinRead
The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.
John Quincy AdamsRead
It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.
Charles BukowskiRead
Utopia is in the moment. Not in some future time, some other place, but in the here and now, or else it is nowhere.
Alfred StieglitzRead
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.
Wendell WillkieRead
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite.
Marcus Tullius CiceroRead