Ursula K. Le Guin

You fear them because you fear death, and rightly: for death is terrible and must be feared,' the mage said...'And life is also a terrible thing,' Ged said, 'and must be feared and praised. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#life #death

I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#vision #writing #art

Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#martyrdom #anarchy

Can true function arise from basic dysfunction? ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#anarchism

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#war #women #inspirational

And the truth is that as a man’s real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower; until at last he chooses nothing, but does only and wholly what he must do... ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#journey #knowledge #life #life

I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#sexism #women #men

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? -Ursula K. Le Guin, author (b. 1929) ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#insanity #sanity #society #humor

The fish in the creek said nothing. Fish never do. Few people know what fish think about injustice, or anything else. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fish #humor #humor

What is evil?" asked the younger man. The round web, with its black center, seemed to watch them both. "A web we men weave." Ged answered. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#men