Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 53 | View more quotes about culture">Culture decides what is truth, but truth, unfortunately for culture, is unaware of this. |
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 50 | She had not, originally, even understood it to contain a message. |
| 1 | 51 | How different she seemed now from what she had then been. |
| 1 | 52 | She had been brought to the house of Samos still in the inexplicable and barbarous garments of Earth, in particular, in the imitation-boy costume, the denim trousers and flannel shirt of the contemporary Earth girl, pathologically conditioned, for economic and historical reasons, to deny and subvert the richness of her unique sexuality. |
| 1 | 53 | Culture decides what is truth, but truth, unfortunately for culture, is unaware of this. |
| 1 | 54 | Cultures, mad and blind, can die upon the rocks of truth. |
| 1 | 55 | Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question. |
| 1 | 56 | How can one know the answer to a question which one fears to ask? Samos, of course, immediately recognized the ribbon as a scytale. |
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She had not, originally, even understood it to contain a message.
How different she seemed now from what she had then been.
She had been brought to the house of Samos still in the inexplicable and barbarous garments of Earth, in particular, in the imitation-boy costume, the denim trousers and flannel shirt of the contemporary Earth girl, pathologically conditioned, for economic and historical reasons, to deny and subvert the richness of her unique sexuality.
Culture decides what is truth, but truth, unfortunately for culture, is unaware of this.
Cultures, mad and blind, can die upon the rocks of truth.
Why can truth not be the foundation of culture, rather than its nemesis? Can one not build upon the stone cliffs of reality rather than dash one's head against them? But how few human beings can think, how few dare to inquire, how few can honestly question.
How can one know the answer to a question which one fears to ask? Samos, of course, immediately recognized the ribbon as a scytale.
- (Explorers of Gor)