“When I was young, I admired people who were clever. Now that I am old, I admire people who are kind.”
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“Certainty is the enemy of knowledge.”
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
― Conscience: The Origins of Moral Intuition
“It appears that we've given up on the long-range view. That we've decided not to think about consequences—about cause and effect. Maybe that's why I feel that I live in exile. I used to live in a country that had a future.”
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time To Spare: Thinking About What Matters
“For fantasy is true, of course. It isn’t factual, but it’s true. Children know that. Adults know it too and that’s precisely why many of them are afraid of fantasy. They know that its truth challenges, even threatens, all that is false, all that is phony, unnecessary, and trivial in the life they have let themselves be forced into living. They are afraid of dragons because they are afraid of freedom.”
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
― The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
“I don’t believe in Darwin’s theory of evolution. I accept it. It isn’t a matter of faith, but of evidence.”
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
― No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters
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