We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. They do not reason it by using reason. ― Anthony de Mello, quote from Awareness: Conversations with the Masters, “The only thing you need is faith in Christ and dedication to each other. The Lathe of Heaven is a 1971 science fiction novel by American writer Ursula K. Le Guin. To let understanding stop at what cannot be understood is a high attainment. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.
She could not exist in the gray people's world. George Orr: I haven't felt anything for days.
All right, so he had funny dreams.
The light shines through it, and the dark enters it. No one else, no thing even, has an existence of its own for him; he sees the world only as a means to his end. They exist. It doesn't make any difference if his end is good; means are all we've got. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “On top of pique, umbrage, and ennui.
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. I pressed a button.
You’re still asleep. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “They made love. Borne, flung, tugged from anywhere to anywhere, for in the deep sea there is no compass but nearer and farther, higher and lower, the jellyfish hangs and sways; pulses move slight and quick within it, as the vast diurnal pulses beat in the moondriven sea. How do you feel today? If you understood, you’d simply drop the desire for it. He was only a dreamer.” George Orr: Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters.
It took the entire will power, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.»«You have lived well,» the Alien said.” The only thing I have ever done. But you're handling something outside reason. What happened to her? They do not reason it by using reason. ― Bryan Sykes, quote from The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry, “When you renounce something, you’re tied to it. But it's not right to play God with masses of people. It took the entire willpower, the accumulated strength of my entire existence, to press one damned OFF button.” A person who believes, as she did, that things fit: that there is a whole of which one is a part, and that in being a part one is whole: such a person has no desire whatever, at any time, to play God. Like a block of wood not carved. I guess I can't, or my subconscious can't, even imagine a warless world. The only thing I have ever done. They do not learn this by learning. We feel
― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.” Achievement is its cancellation. Those who cannot do it will be destroyed on the lathe of heaven. All we have is means. You have to be with it. Integrity? Dr. Haber: Welcome to Dr. Haber's Palace of Dreams. And now, now the currents mislead and the waves betray, breaking their endless circle, to leap up in loud foam against rock and air, breaking....What will the creature made all of seadrift do on the dry sand of daylight; what will the mind do, each morning, waking?” For all of us, quotes are a great way to remember a book And reality was being pulled out from under us all the time - and we didn't even know it? ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “Those whom heaven helps we call the sons of heaven. You have to help another person. George Orr: Well, I don't think I can take another big day. Dr. Haber: Don't you have anything to say? You are afraid of losing your balance. There is nothing important except people.
He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. Of course there are. Web.
She was brown, not gray. And now other people run them.
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― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “But now his dry and silent grieving for his lost wife must end, for there she stood, the fierce, recalcitrant, and fragile stranger, forever to be won again.” Wholeness? Oh, the French diseases of the soul.” https://www.quotes.net/movies/the_lathe_of_heaven_quotes_147174. Dr. Haber: Oh, yes. submissions from our visitors and will select the quotes we feel are most appealing to Well, it's just a thought. What if everybody could do it? Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? 176 Sep 1, 2019 - by Ursula K. Le Guin. A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and 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, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “The end justifies the means. What we need to do is to help you understand, understand, understand. To be God you have to know what you're doing. They do not work it by working. the BookQuoters community.
The only way to get out of this is to see through it. You have to... be in touch. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “Saying that, he was suddenly himself again, despite his lunatic hair and eyes: a man whose personal dignity went so deep as to be nearly invisible...It was more than diginity.
Understand its true value and you won’tneed to renounce it; it will just drop from your hands. There is a bird in a poem by T. S. Eliot who says that mankind cannot bear very much reality; but the bird is mistaken.
Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. The plot revolves around a character whose dreams alter past and present reality. What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? Intellectually you know that, but emotionally you refuse it. Nothing remains the same from one moment to the next, you can't step into the same river twice. —William Carlos Williams, “Asphodel, That Greeny Flower” Two television film adaptations have been released: the PBS production, The Lathe of Heaven (1980), and Lathe of Heaven (2002), a remake produced by the A&E Network. George Orr: I doubt it. I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “I don’t like making the rest of the world live in my dreams, but I certainly don’t want to live in yours.” ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; re-made all the time, made new. What does matter is that we're a part. Dr. Haber: Oh, she's out there somewhere. ― Ursula K. Le Guin, quote from The Lathe of Heaven, “A person is defined solely by the extent of his influence over other people, by the sphere of his interrelationships; and 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.” Dr. Haber: You know what they say, neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them. But of course, if you don’t see that, if you’re hypnotized into thinking that you won’t be happy without this, that, or the other thing, you’re stuck. typical of the Information Age but is a habit disdained by some diehard readers. In a near future society, a man claims that his dreams physically change reality. —Chuang Tse: XXIII” To be God you have to know what you're doing. For some of us a quote becomes a mantra, a goal or a I haven't any destiny.
Hercolor, her color of brown, was an essential part of her, not an accident. Are there really people without resentment, without hate, she wondered. ― Jodi Picoult, quote from Mercy. Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation — overcrowding — reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. As the world communicates more and Progress. Please complete the form below to request a personal quote.