Gravity Dreams Quotes

“Power beyond great power allows honesty and compels those in such a society to demand it.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“The difference between truth and honesty is the difference between the riverbed and the river.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Those who err without understanding shall die without comprehending.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Amazing how what you didn’t have kept coming to mind.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Freedom and ignorance are incapable of long coexistence.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Explanation is not awareness.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Accept what is until you may understand it.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“The universe exists independent of the anthropic principle…so does overspace,” continued Krigisa. There was a significant difference between existence and understanding, between reaction and proaction—or were intelligence and planning merely illusions? Were we genetically programmed to respond, merely rationalizing our actions after the facts?”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“No memories? What were we but memories governed by a form of intelligence, seeking to make our lives in some way memorable? Trying to attain dreams that would secure such remembrance?”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Life offers no theology. There is but music and dance.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“It’s harder than anyone can tell you it will be, and easier than what you fear. No one else can do what we do. It sounds arrogant, but it’s not, and you have to remember that, outside the Web, you’re only a demon.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Except for the occasional great person or hero, or tragedy, death has always been personal, affecting one individual and the handful of people who cared about that dead individual. The rest of society went on, and that had been true as far back as the ancient pyramids and great walls, and remained true, and would doubtless remain so into the far future.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“All life is sorrow.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“There is no “truth,” for the very term requires both conformity with physically verifiable reality and adherence to the underlying belief system of the “truth-seeker.” Belief systems, by definition, place faith in the unknowable above factual verification, while facts stand independent of faith.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“As soon as a thing is named, its essence is limited, if not lost, for nothing is limited to its name.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Strive not for beauty of raiment, nor for stately dwellings…behold the lilac.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“You smile, but I’ve seen my share of greatness over the years, and it’s not a blessing. The only difficulty is that escaping greatness brings an even greater curse.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“I will die, later or sooner, and what I understand will be lost, for when men and women seek truth, what they find is as deceptive as lies, and neither truth nor lies exist outside of a deceptive soul.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Deception…all life is deception, for without deception few can face the cold impartiality of the universe or the fact that it will go on and we will die, never benefiting fully from what was or at all from what we have struggled to create, but striving against the darkness of self-deception. Yet…the struggle in itself has meaning because the universe only exists. Merely existing, the universe lacks meaning, and only a deceptive being can bring meaning to the impartial fact of meaninglessness.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Humankind is myth.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Each person believes in self-uniqueness: snowflakes are equally unique.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Societies run on myths, and one of the great myths is that we hold the stars the ancients couldn’t. What happens if, one by one, we lose ships and pilots? The myth dies.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Belief in destiny becomes an excuse for inaction or a rationale for self-centered action.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Every society, I understood, had to have faith in something beyond itself, beyond the day-to-day. For the ancients, it had been religion, irrational and constricting as it had been. For Dorcha, it was the way of Dzin. For Klama, the way of Toze. For Dezret, the way of Ryks. And Rykasha? The stellar dream…the dream that nothing is beyond the souls and aspirations of demons? Such fragile arrogance…”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Myths dissected by logic and science die, and so does the culture that lived by them.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Beware of those who truly garden…for they see people as plants.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“To tell another what one has sensed is to paint a scene without color or perspective.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“the universe was so vast it seemed unlikely that it was empty, and if something was there…it was there.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“We believe that engee is an assemblage of self-assembling and replicating nanites of a variety developed by the ancients.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams

“Each journey is the same journey, yet those who travel together go separate ways.”
― L.E. Modesitt Jr., Gravity Dreams