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Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)

I do not fully understand this saying. - (Marauders of Gor, Chapter 1, Sentence #198)
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1 198 I do not View more quotes about fully">fully understand this saying.

Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
1 195 I was bitter.
1 196 But the Goreans have a saying, which came to me in the darkness, in the hall.
1 197 "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so".
1 198 I do not fully understand this saying.
1 199 How, for example, can one proceed to do what one does not know how to do? The answer, I suspect, is that the Gorean belief is that one does, truly, in some way, know how to live, though one may not know that one knows.
1 200 The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one.
1 201 Perhaps it is regarded as being somehow innate, or a function of instincts.
I was bitter. But the Goreans have a saying, which came to me in the darkness, in the hall. "Do not ask the stones or the trees how to live; they cannot tell you; they do not have tongues; do not ask the wise man how to live, for, if he knows, he will know he cannot tell you; if you would learn how to live do not ask the question; its answer is not in the question but in the answer, which is not in words; do not ask how to live, but, instead, proceed to do so". I do not fully understand this saying. How, for example, can one proceed to do what one does not know how to do? The answer, I suspect, is that the Gorean belief is that one does, truly, in some way, know how to live, though one may not know that one knows. The knowledge is regarded as being somehow within one. Perhaps it is regarded as being somehow innate, or a function of instincts. - (Marauders of Gor)