More quotes by Daniel Quinn, Ishmael: An Adventure of the Mind and Spirit

"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."
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"[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it."
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"This is precisely how someone speaks who imagines that he is the world's divinely appointed ruler: 'I will not LET them starve. I will not LET the drought come. I will not LET the river flood."
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"You're captives of a civilizational system that more or less compels you to go on destroying the world in order to live. … You are captives—and you have made a captive of the world itself. That's what's at stake, isn't it?—your captivity and the captivity of the world."
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"The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'."
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