Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 604 | "Are they not insane?" "By carefully View more quotes about chosen">chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure". |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 601 | "What if there were such a thing as magic?" she asked. |
| 17 | 602 | "That society, then, would simply be correct," I said. |
| 17 | 603 | "What of these people who were just here?" she asked. |
| 17 | 604 | "Are they not insane?" "By carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure". |
| 17 | 605 | "I think they are mad, insane," she said. |
| 17 | 606 | "They are at least mistaken," I said, "and, in many respects, are different from us". |
| 17 | 607 | She shuddered. |
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"What if there were such a thing as magic?" she asked.
"That society, then, would simply be correct," I said.
"What of these people who were just here?" she asked.
"Are they not insane?" "By carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a conceptual structure".
"I think they are mad, insane," she said.
"They are at least mistaken," I said, "and, in many respects, are different from us".
She shuddered.
- (Savages of Gor)