Daniel Quinn Quotes About Life

• Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, you’ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, you’ll be tempted to say to the people around you, “how can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Mother, Learning

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

• Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Men, Greed

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.83, Bantam

• You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

  Daniel Quinn

  Life, Science, Moon

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.87, Bantam

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