Transcendental Quotes

“A man is what a man is; he recognises his deficiencies and tries to conquer them or plans around them.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Everyone is his or her own messiah.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“The admission of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Fuck the passengers!”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Animals fight wars; flowers practice peace.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic,” his pedia said.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“The universe deteriorates into greater simplicity; life evolves into greater complexity. Inanimate and animate are eternally in opposition.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“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 Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“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 Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“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 Edwin Gunn, Transcendental

“Sapients changed their worlds in their own images, but once they were gone the worlds recovered. Sapients destroyed; worlds restored.”
― James Edwin Gunn, Transcendental