Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ursula K. Le Guin
Age: 88 †
Born: 1929
Born: October 21
Died: 2018
Died: January 22
Author
Feminist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Berkeley
California
Ursula Kroeber
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin
Term
Others
Utterly
Doe
Fulfilling
Whole
Meaningless
Good
Defined
Morality
Function
Unless
More quotes by Ursula K. Le Guin
The word must be heard in silence there must be darkness to see the stars.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Why can I never set my heart on a possible thing?
Ursula K. Le Guin
The light is the left hand of darkness.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art - the art of words.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Infinite are the arguments of mages.
Ursula K. Le Guin
He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater detterent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It is good to have an end to journey towards but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Love does not obey the mind, and turns to hate when forced.
Ursula K. Le Guin
It's not a weapon or a woman can make a man, or magery either, or any power, anything but himself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
I write with all my heart
Ursula K. Le Guin
Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.
Ursula K. Le Guin
We read books to find out who we are.
Ursula K. Le Guin
...If at moments the facts seem to alter with an altered voice, why then you can choose the fact you like best yet none of them are false, and it is all one story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
Ursula K. Le Guin
That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Dragons are more dangerous, and a good deal commoner, than bears. Fantasy is nearer to poetry, to mysticism, and to insanity than naturalistic fiction is. It is a real wilderness, and those who go there should not feel too safe.
Ursula K. Le Guin
Do nothing because it is righteous or praiseworthy or noble to do so do nothing because it seems good to do so do only that which you must do and which you cannot do in any other way.
Ursula K. Le Guin
