“But need alone is not enough to set power free: there must be knowledge.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.”
― Politics
― Politics
“Men do not become tyrants in order that they may not suffer cold.”
― Politics
― Politics
“No one infers a god from the simple, from the known, from what is understood, but from the complex, from the unknown, and incomprehensible. Our ignorance is God; what we know is science.”
― On the Gods and Other Essays
― On the Gods and Other Essays
“When the sun goes out, all deeds, significant or not, will be forgotten together.”
― Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous
― Tales of the Dying Earth: The Dying Earth, The Eyes of the Overworld, Cugel's Saga, Rhialto the Marvellous
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