Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 366 | It is repudiated only at one's risk. |
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 363 | The View more quotes about pursuit">pursuit of perfection, which by definition is unobtainable, leads to pathology. |
| 3 | 364 | Theory succumbs to fact. |
| 3 | 365 | Reality is recalcitrant. |
| 3 | 366 | It is repudiated only at one's risk. |
| 3 | 367 | Poison does not nourish, but sickens or kills. |
| 3 | 368 | Consider then a world in which politics is given priority over nature. |
| 3 | 369 | That is the slave world! Values and conventions become not roads, mountains, horizons, and wings, but fences and shackles. |
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The pursuit of perfection, which by definition is unobtainable, leads to pathology.
Theory succumbs to fact.
Reality is recalcitrant.
It is repudiated only at one's risk.
Poison does not nourish, but sickens or kills.
Consider then a world in which politics is given priority over nature.
That is the slave world! Values and conventions become not roads, mountains, horizons, and wings, but fences and shackles.
- (Quarry of Gor)