David Zindell Quotes

#1. Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

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#2. Who would bring light must endure burning.

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#3. We are the eyes through which the Univers observes itself and knows itself divine.

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#4. What is a human being, then?'
'A seed.'
'A ... seed?'
'An acorn that is unafraid to destroy itself in growing into a tree.

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#5. For it is only in accepting death that one can truly live, and for the human animal, death has always been the great black beast from the abyss to be dreaded or defeated or avoided or hated - but never looked upon clearly face to face.

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#6. I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

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#7. The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.

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#8. Evil cannot be vanquished with a sword, and darkness cannot be defeated in battle but only by shining a bright enough light.

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#9. Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.

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#10. For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

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#11. There are three requisites for growth without bound, and only three: the will to remake oneself, the genius to survive, and the strength to suffer.

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#12. [ ... ] when you look at the world, you put on the goggles of custom, habit and tribal wisdom lest the truth make you insane [ ... ] you see the world reflected in your own image; you see yourself reflected to the image of the world [ ... ]

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#13. A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

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#14. If you kill me, you kill yourself.
[ ... ]
He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself.

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#15. Life moved ever outward into infinite possibilities and yet all things were perfect and finished in every single moment, their end attained.

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#16. But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever ...

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#17. The deep structure of the universe is pure consciousness.

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#18. We walk the brink of racial suicide because we were smart enough to make atomic bombs and stupid enough to use them.

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#19. The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

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#20. Self-creation is the highest art.

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#21. For our kind, there's always the burning to be more. ( ... ) that is why true human beings feel more pain. Because we are more, but it's never quite enough - never.

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#22. All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

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