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Quotes from A Time of Changes — Robert Silverberg

born 1935 United States

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11 quotes

Love of others begins with love of self.

A Time of Changes (1971)

What value is lineage to a drowning man?

A Time of Changes (1971)

Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.

A Time of Changes (1971)

All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.

A Time of Changes (1971)

You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.

A Time of Changes (1971)

“All my life,” said Schweiz, “has been a quest for plausible reasons to believe in what I know to be irrational.”

A Time of Changes (1971)

My only regrets were for poor tactics, not for faulty principles.

A Time of Changes (1971)

The style in which it was written told me much: I found that a man who cannot phrase his thoughts cleanly on paper probably has no thoughts worth notice.

A Time of Changes (1971)

How intricately our loins are linked to our minds, and how tricky a thing it is when we embrace a woman while pretending she is another!

A Time of Changes (1971)

But in this logging camp in the mountains I came to understand that kings are nothing but men set high. The gods do not anoint them, but rather the will of men, and men can strip them of their lofty rank.

A Time of Changes (1971)

It is peaceful here. I am far from the fishmongers and the drainers and the wine-peddlers and all those others whose songs of commerce clang in the streets of cities. A man can think; a man can look within his soul, and find those things that have been the shaping of him, and draw them forth, and examine them, and come to know himself.

A Time of Changes (1971)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Silverberg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.