Quotes
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.
p. 89
A Time of ChangesMy only regrets were for poor tactics, not for faulty principles.
p. 204
A Time of ChangesAll true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context.
p. 110
A Time of ChangesBut 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.
p. 62
A Time of ChangesIt 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.
p. 21
A Time of Changes“All my life,” said Schweiz, “has been a quest for plausible reasons to believe in what I know to be irrational.”
p. 168
A Time of ChangesLove of others begins with love of self.
p. 126
A Time of ChangesKnowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul.
p. 110
A Time of ChangesWhat value is lineage to a drowning man?
p. 142
A Time of ChangesHow 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!
p. 85
A Time of ChangesYou may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams.
p. 25
A Time of Changes
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