It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
Ursula K. Le GuinRead
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Interpretation
Denying difficult truths can lead to one's own downfall.
This quote by Ursula K. Le Guin highlights the dangers of ignoring or denying uncomfortable realities in life. The metaphor of dragons symbolizes significant challenges or fears, and the warning implies that those who avoid confronting these issues may ultimately suffer from their consequences, often in ways they themselves do not anticipate.
In practice
In a motivational speech about facing fears, one might quote Le Guin to emphasize the importance of acknowledging personal challenges.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.
In reading a novel, any novel, we have to know perfectly well that the whole thing is nonsense, and then, while reading, believe every word of it. Finally, when we're done with it, we may find - if it's a good novel - that we're a bit different from what we were before we read it, that we have changed a little... But it's very hard to say just what we learned, how we were changed.
Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or the scientific discourse announces itself as the voice of reason, it is playing God, and should be spanked and stood in the corner.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next.
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.
When he found that the administrators were upset, he laughed. βDo they expect students not to be anarchists?β he said. βWhat else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up
There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death. We all come to that state soon or late. It is the curse of senility.
But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself.
How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
I am seeking for the bridge which leans from the visible to the invisible through reality.
Boredom rests upon the nothingness that winds its way through existence; its giddiness, like that which comes from gazing down into an infinite abyss, is infinite.
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