💬 Quotes

"I’ll tell you what Mars is. Mars is a mirror, not a destination. It shows us exactly what we brought with us."

"The Martians were there—in the canal—reflected in the water. Timothy began to tremble. 'Where are they?' he whispered. 'They are us,' said his father."

"We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. Maybe we’ll just be a wave of dust that settles over everything and kills it."

"True names are the keys to the soul, and to know a person's true name is to hold their life in your hands."

"I am not a hero. I am merely a rider who has been burdened with a destiny he never asked for."

"To be a leader is to accept that your own desires must always come second to the needs of those you serve."

"Steel is the flesh of battle, but magic is its spirit; both are needed to forge a victory that will last."

"We are but small figures on a vast board, played by forces older and more cunning than we can ever hope to comprehend."

"Knowledge is a fire that warms those who tend it, but consumes those who are careless with its heat."

"It was just some ignorance inside me, some ignorance of my own, that caused it."

"I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. He possessed a way of convincing people that he was immune to the rules of life."

"Wars were not made by history and things like that. Wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart."

"Phineas, in spite of his love for school, was the only one of us who never really studied. He was a natural athlete, and he believed that sports were the only thing that mattered."

"I gave it all to his lordship. All my best years. And I suppose I have a right to ask myself now: what does it all add up to?"

"Oh! the happiness of being two! To be but one! To be a world to each other!"

"A priest is a man, and a man is a sinner, and a sinner is a devil."

"In the Middle Ages, the human race had no thought that it did not write down in stone. Every religious idea, every social dogma, has its chapter in this great book."

"He who has once loved, is not a man who can ever be consoled."

"The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; The name that can be named is not the eternal name."

"The wise man does his job and then stops. He understands that if he goes too far, he will be frustrated by the way things are."