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Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " The admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

2 " The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

3 " Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic,” his pedia said. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

4 " Fuck the passengers! "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

5 " A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

6 " Everyone is his or her own messiah. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

7 " Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

8 " The universe deteriorates into greater simplicity; life evolves into greater complexity. Inanimate and animate are eternally in opposition. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

9 " Wherever sapience occurs, mind covets understanding and asks questions, understanding leads to more questions, and more complicated answers demand greater control over the process. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

10 " Sapients changed their worlds in their own images, but once they were gone the worlds recovered. Sapients destroyed; worlds restored. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

11 " Every great movement in Ourworld history has been led by a charismatic individual who was able to sense the prevailing passions in the masses and encapsulate them in a message that restates them as if they were newly conceived, offers release, relief, and redemption. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)

12 " Great leaders succeed by transforming their followers, and the greatest transformation is from traditional beliefs to their opposite, from black to white and from white to black; there is nothing so seductive to good as evil or to evil as good. "

― James E. Gunn , Transcendental (Transcendental Trilogy, #1)