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Kim Stanley Quotes

It’s fragile what we know. It’s gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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) Picture Quote #1

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since Picture Quote #1

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An excess of reason is itself a form of madness Picture Quote #1

Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government Picture Quote #1

It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power Picture Quote #1

In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends Picture Quote #1

Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape Picture Quote #1

Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance Picture Quote #1

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The command to be free is a double bind Picture Quote #1

The invisible hand never picks up the check Picture Quote #1

None of us know our real names Picture Quote #1

It’s fragile what we know. It’s gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again Picture Quote #1

A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us Picture Quote #1

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now Picture Quote #1

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Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting Picture Quote #1

It’s too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams Picture Quote #1

Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it’s the story itself that is the reincarnation Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing Picture Quote #1

It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We’re midway through the loom, that’s the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history Picture Quote #1

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You can’t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Many of the technologies we’ve invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can’t go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly Picture Quote #1

The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening Picture Quote #1

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It’s fragile what we know. It’s gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again. (Kim Stanley Quotes) 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 Quotes) What kind of Dv would it take to escape history, to escape an inertia that powerful, and carve a new course? The hardest part is leaving Earth behind (Kim Stanley Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since (Kim Stanley Quotes) An excess of reason is itself a form of madness (Kim Stanley Quotes) Money equals power; power makes the law; and law makes government (Kim Stanley Quotes) It was not power that corrupted people, but fools who corrupted power (Kim Stanley Quotes) In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends (Kim Stanley Quotes) Logic was to cognition as geometry was to landscape (Kim Stanley Quotes) Whistling together. Some kind of performance. I mean, not just a conversation, but a performance (Kim Stanley Quotes) The command to be free is a double bind (Kim Stanley Quotes) The invisible hand never picks up the check (Kim Stanley Quotes) None of us know our real names (Kim Stanley Quotes) It’s fragile what we know. It’s gone every time we forget. Then someone has to learn it all over again (Kim Stanley Quotes) A lot of scientists act on their beliefs and so do things that look crazy to the rest of us (Kim Stanley Quotes) You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now (Kim Stanley Quotes) Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire... Life is wanting (Kim Stanley Quotes) It’s too bad we only had the courage to live our lives fully in dreams (Kim Stanley Quotes) Reincarnation is a story we tell; then in the end it’s the story itself that is the reincarnation (Kim Stanley Quotes) 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 Quotes) The only part of an argument that really matters is what we think of the people arguing (Kim Stanley Quotes) It makes us a thread in a tapestry that has unrolled for centuries before us, and will unroll for centuries after us. We’re midway through the loom, that’s the present, and what we do casts the thread in a particular direction, and the picture of the tapestry changes accordingly. When we begin to to try to make a picture pleasing to us and to those who come after, then perhaps you can say that we have seized history (Kim Stanley Quotes) You can’t get any movement larger than five people without including at least one flippin idiot (Kim Stanley Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Many of the technologies we’ve invented are necessary to keep 6.5 billion people alive. We can’t go back from that, so we need to decarbonize really rapidly (Kim Stanley Quotes) The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening (Kim Stanley Quotes)

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