The greatest religious problem today is how to be both a mystic and a militant; in other words how to combine the search for an expansion of inner awareness with effective social action, and how to feel one's true identity…

Quote by Ursula K LeGuin

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My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the...

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the...

Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.

Comfort was allowed to come to them rare, welcome, unsought: a gift like joy.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that...

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that...

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what...

The only thing that makes life possible is a permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

Reason is a faculty far larger than mere objective force. When either the political or...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey...

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a...

I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a...

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by...

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by...

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but...

When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but...

Scientists are peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity

Scientists are peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going...

If only the sun-drenched celebrities are being noticed and worshiped, then our children are going...

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as...

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as...

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the...

May every young scientist remember... and not fail to keep his eyes open for the...

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly...

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a...

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers...

A good scientist is a person in whom the childhood quality of perennial curiosity lingers...

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about...

Scientists often have a naive faith that if only they could discover enough facts about...

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, >eccentric individual with...

No doubt, a scientist isn't necessarily penalized for being a complex, versatile, >eccentric individual with...