Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
But the truth is that no person ever understands another, from beginning to end of life, there is no truth that can be known, only the story we imagine to be true, the story they really believe to be true about themselves; and all of them lies.
Since when do you have to tell the enemy when he has won.
And then he thought: Is this how idiots rationalize their stupidity to themselves?
Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you.
I don’t care if I pass your test, I don’t care if I follow your rules. If you can cheat, so can I. I won’t let you beat me unfairly – I’ll beat you unfairly first. – Ender.
The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.
We were all fated to die, and so it is good that at least we can be sure our deaths today might bring about a good end, might make the world a better place.
None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing.
Into the the air, into the earth, into the fire, I am with you.
This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.
If you try and lose then it isn’t your fault. But if you don’t try and we lose, then it’s all your fault.
I’ve watched through his eyes, I’ve listened through his ears, and I tell you he’s the one.
Thank God for you, Ender. Thank God.
You who speak languages, you are such liars.
Please don’t disillusion me. I haven’t had breakfast yet.
You’re a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn’t inexhaustable.
The only true vision comes not from God but from the inmost recesses of the human mind.
When you have wisdom that another person knows that he needs, you give it freely. But when the other person doesn’t yet know that he needs your wisdom you keep it to yourself. Food only looks good to a hungry man.
Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I’m old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.