Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.
They recognize the Master, now that I have preached Truth to them. All the robots do.
What would you consider a good job? Answered as follows:A good job is one in which I don't have to work, and get paid a lot of money.When I heard that I cheered and yelled and felt that he should be g...
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better...
People think of education as something they can finish.
Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs a...
When I feel difficulty coming on I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem my unconscious has solved it.
And Mallow laughed joyously. You've missed, Sutt, missed as badly as the Commdor himself. You've missed everything, and understood nothing. The Empire has always been a realm of colossal resources. Th...
I am trying now to re-create in my mind the picture of the man as I saw him in 1939- he, the revered author of , I the novice. I think I can rely on my near-photographic memory for the purpose. (I cal...
I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification...It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.
I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impov...
It has been said in this courtroom that only a human being can be free. It seems to me that only someone who wishes for freedom can be free. I wish for freedom.
It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests. Can...
It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the heal...
Lamentarsi è una caratteristica innata della specie umana. Nel Secolo del Carbone la gente imprecava contro la macchina a vapore; in una commedia di Shakespeare un personaggio lamenta l'invenzione del...
Often, one compensates by playing an instrument, or going hiking, or joining some club. In other words, one creates a new type of society, when not working, in which one can feel more at home.
People say 'It's as plain as the noise on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone hold a mirror up to you?
She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.
Space, man, have you no respect for science?
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