Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 34 | Yet there is in that View more quotes about life">life form a spark of awareness, for all its frivolity and frailty, for all its egregious contumely and its hideous ineptitude, a flicker of mind, however reluctant, in a largely oblivious, somnolent world. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 31 | His bulwark is stupidity. |
| 1 | 32 | And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal. |
| 1 | 33 | He is unworthy of the stars. |
| 1 | 34 | Yet there is in that life form a spark of awareness, for all its frivolity and frailty, for all its egregious contumely and its hideous ineptitude, a flicker of mind, however reluctant, in a largely oblivious, somnolent world. |
| 1 | 35 | It is one of the rare places the universe has stirred, and awakened, and opened its eye, and looked upon itself, startled to learn that it exists. |
| 1 | 36 | Does it recoil, seeing itself in the human? Surely it rejoices, seeing itself in us, we who are worthy of it. |
| 1 | 37 | It is conscious in countless minds, of course, in that of the mouse, and cat, in that of the urt and verr, in that of the barracuda, in that of the viper and leopard, in that of the hith and larl. |
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His bulwark is stupidity.
And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal.
He is unworthy of the stars.
Yet there is in that life form a spark of awareness, for all its frivolity and frailty, for all its egregious contumely and its hideous ineptitude, a flicker of mind, however reluctant, in a largely oblivious, somnolent world.
It is one of the rare places the universe has stirred, and awakened, and opened its eye, and looked upon itself, startled to learn that it exists.
Does it recoil, seeing itself in the human? Surely it rejoices, seeing itself in us, we who are worthy of it.
It is conscious in countless minds, of course, in that of the mouse, and cat, in that of the urt and verr, in that of the barracuda, in that of the viper and leopard, in that of the hith and larl.
- (Kur of Gor)