It was a mistake to speak one's mind at any time, unless it perfectly matched your political purpose; and it never did. Kim Stanley More Quotes by Kim Stanley More Quotes From Kim Stanley Below the 40th latitude there is no law; below the 50th no god; below the 60th no common sense and below the 70th no intelligence whatsoever. Kim Stanley latitudecommon-senselaw Historical analogy is the last refuge of people who can't grasp the current situation. Kim Stanley analogieshistoricalpeople Each of us have a gift, you see, given us freely by the universe. And each of us with every breath gives something back Kim Stanley breathsgivengiving The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening. Kim Stanley climbingadventurefunny Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting. Kim Stanley life-isdesiretrying First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart. Kim Stanley falling-in-loveheartfirsts We are here to inscribe ourselves on the universe, and it is not inappropriate to remind ourselves of this when blank slates are given us. Kim Stanley blankinappropriategiven You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you). Kim Stanley your-childrenchildhoodhappens Very few people ever bother to find out what other people really think. They are willing to accept whatever they are told about anyone sufficiently distant. Kim Stanley acceptingpeoplethinking We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces. Kim Stanley landcitiessky Without an observer at a twenty three degree angle to the light being reflected off a cloud of spherical droplets, there is no rainbow. The whole universe is like that. Our spirits stand at a twenty three degree angle to the universe. There is some new thing created at the contact of photon and retina, some space created between rock and mind. Kim Stanley rockslightclouds An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Kim Stanley excessmadnessreason None of us know our real names. Kim Stanley realnamesknows The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing. Kim Stanley matterpeoplethinking Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape Kim Stanley cognitionlandscapelogic Habits begin to form at the very first repetition. After that there is a tropism toward repetition, for the patterns involved are defenses , bulwarks against time and despair. Kim Stanley patternsdespairdefense Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance. Kim Stanley kindtogethermean In a capitalist world, the word capital has taken on more and more uses. . . . human capital, for instance, which is what labor accumulates through education and work experience. Human capital differs from the classic kind in that you can't inherit it, and it can only be rented, not bought or sold. Kim Stanley takenuseworld We should conceive of ourselves not as rulers of Earth, but as highly powerful, conscious stewards: The Earth is given to us in trust, and we can screw it up or make it work well and sustainably. Kim Stanley powerfulconsciousearth Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act. Kim Stanley answerstoo-lateneeds
