I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
Orson Scott CardTags: pain identity ender-wiggin
I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself.
Orson Scott CardTags: inspiration life-lessons ender andrew-wiggin
Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
Orson Scott CardTags: humour
Oh, Val," said Father. "All you have to do is live your life, and everyone around you will be happier."
"No greatness, then."
"Val," said Mother, "goodness trumps greatness any day."
"Not in the history books," said Valentine.
"Then the wrong people are writing history, aren't they?" said Father.
And what? What's the other choice? To passively let things happen and then say: "Tut-tut, what at botch that was"? Don't we all manipulate people? Even if we openly ask them to make a choice, don't we try to frame it so they'll chose as we think they should?
Orson Scott CardIn philosophy class I think we finally decided that 'good' is an infinitely recursive term - it can't be defined except in terms of itself. Good is good because it's better than bad, though why it's better to be good than bad depends on how you define good, and on and on.
Orson Scott CardTags: philosophy goodness
Isn’t that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?
Orson Scott CardNo one can know a false thing, one can only believe it with certainty until it is contradicted. (Page 7)
Orson Scott CardОчите на хората гледали нависоко, но виждали съвсем малко по-надалеч от животните със сведени глави; сърцата на хората се извисявали, но въпреки това сърцето можело само да се надява, защото денем кръгозорът му се ограничавал от небето, а нощем, когато погледът му стигал до звездите, то ослепявало за близките неща дотолкова, че мъжът едва различава силуета на собствената си жена в сенките на дома си, въпреки че може да види звезди, чиято далечна светлина пътува стотици негови животи, преди да целуне очите му." Орсън Скот Кард - "Рожби на съзнанието
Orson Scott CardHumanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
Orson Scott CardTags: happiness humanity mazer-rackham
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