"...But when it comes to human beings,
the only type of cause that matters is final cause, the purpose.
What a person had in mind. Once you understand what people
really want, you can't hate them anymore. You can fear them,
but you can't hate them, because you can always find the same
desires in your own heart."
Speaker for the Dead
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"We have to go. I'm almost happy here."
Ender's Game
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The great forces of history were real,
after a fashion. But when you examined them closely, those
great forces always came down to the dreams and hungers and
judgments of individuals. The choices they made were real.
They mattered.
Atlantis
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"It's impossible to really understand
somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love
them the way they love themselves."
Ender's Game
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"Your trust in rationality makes
you irrational."
Children of the Mind
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"Knowledge is just opinion that you
trust enough to act upon."
Children of the Mind
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"I am your enemy, the first one you've
ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but
the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the
enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach
you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where
you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong.
And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what
you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now
on. From now on, I am your teacher."
Ender's Game
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"I've lived too long with pain. I won't
know who I am without it."
Ender's Game
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"Everything possible to be believed
is an image of the truth."
Seventh Son
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"Perhaps it's impossible to wear an
identity without becoming what you pretend to be."
Ender's Game
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'I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience,
that was a sentence never uttered except to prove its own
inaccuracy.
Ender's Shadow
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And it came into Hooch's mind that when both parties are lying
and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful
close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
Red Prophet
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"I'm right here. This is who I really
am. I'm not pretending."
Ender's Shadow
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'I'm not stupid!' In Bean's experience, that was a sentence
never uttered except to prove its own inaccuracy.
Ender's Shadow
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