# A Time of Changes

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/a-time-of-changes

## 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

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

p. 204

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

p. 110

> 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.

p. 62

> 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.

p. 21

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

p. 168

> Love of others begins with love of self.

p. 126

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

p. 110

> What value is lineage to a drowning man?

p. 142

> 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!

p. 85

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

p. 25