“That is between me and my shadow.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“A rock is a good thing, too, you know. If the Isles of Earthsea were all made of diamond, we'd lead a hard life here. Enjoy the illusions, lad, and let the rocks be rocks.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― The Trouble With Being Born
― The Trouble With Being Born
“Minds are not bits of clockwork, they are just bits of not-clockwork. As thus represented, minds are not merely ghosts harnessed to machines, they are themselves just spectral machines. . . . Now the dogma of the Ghost in the Machine does just this. It maintains that there exist both bodies and minds; that there occur physical processes and mental processes; that there are mechanical causes of corporeal movements and mental causes of corporeal movements. I shall argue that these and other analogous conjunctions are absurd.”
― The Concept of Mind
― The Concept of Mind
“For a word to be spoken, there must be silence. Before, and after.”
― A Wizard of Earthsea
― A Wizard of Earthsea
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