# Quote — Robert Silverberg, The Man In The Maze

> You can make no meaningful evaluations of the universe without the confidence that you are seeing it clearly.

- Author: [Robert Silverberg](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg.md)
- Book: [The Man In The Maze](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-man-in-the-maze.md)
- Page: 89
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Silverberg#The_Man_in_the_Maze_(1969)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-man-in-the-maze/you-can-make

## More from this book

> “The cages are ready in case any of the enemies are captured.”
>
> “You mean us?”
>
> “Yes. Enemies.” Muller’s eyes glittered with sudden paranoid fury; it was alarming how easily he slipped from rational discourse to that cold blaze. “Homo sapiens. The most dangerous, the most ruthless, the most despicable beast in the universe!”
>
> “You say it as if you believe it.”
>
> “I do.”

p. 118 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-man-in-the-maze/the-cages-are.md)

> I have lost my sense of a universe. They say this is the richest era of human existence; but I think a man can be richer in knowing every atom of a single golden island in a blue sea than by spending his days striding among all the worlds.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-man-in-the-maze/i-have-lost.md)

> Stand near me and you get sick. Why? It reminds you that you’re an animal too, because you get a full dose of me. So we go round and round in our endless feedback. You hate me because you learn things about your own soul by getting near me. And I hate you because you must draw back from me. What I am, you see, is a plague carrier, and the plague I carry is the truth. My message is that it’s a lucky thing for humanity that we’re shut up each in his own skull. Because if we had even a little drop of telepathy, even the blurry nonverbal thing I’ve got, we’d be unable to stand each other. Human society would be impossible.

p. 120 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/robert-silverberg/the-man-in-the-maze/stand-near-me-and.md)