Marion Zimmer Bradley Quotes - Page 2

All gods are one god.

From these Christians who came to [Avalon] to escape the bigotry of their own kind I learned something, at last, of the Nazarene, the carpenter's son who had attained Godhead in his own life and preached a rule of tolerance; and so I came to see that my quarrel was never with the Christ, but with his foolish and narrow priests who mistook their own narrowness for his.

I am dedicated to the belief that it is God's will that all men should strive for wisdom in themselves, not look to it from some other. Babes, perhaps, must have their food chewed for them by a nurse, but men may drink and eat of wisdom for themselves.

Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.

And I must believe that man has the power to know the right, to choose between good and evil and know that his choice has made a difference.

By what men think, we create the world around us, daily new.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.

All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world.

What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?

I should know, for I am Morgaine le Fay, priestess of the Isle of Avalon, where the ancient religion of the Mother Goddess is born.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

For there is no higher religion than the Truth.

If you listen to dogs barking you will go deaf without learning anything.

Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

I wasn't a child at 13, were you?

... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones

No man or woman can live another's fate

One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

Never name the well from which you will not drink.

If you own a machine, you are in turn owned by it, and spend your time serving it.

A priestess of Avalon does not lie. But I am cast out of Avalon, and for this, and unless it is all to be for nothing, I must lie, and lie well and quickly

Arthur, their young king, like a hero out of legend.

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.

Some knowledge and some song and some beauty must be kept for those days before the world again plunges into darkness.

But this is my truth; I who am Morgaine tell you these things, Morgaine who was in later days called Morgan le Fay.