The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.
The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware he is wise.
The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.
She possesses what someone once described to me as all the unlovable virtues.
Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them.
Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another—sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself—w...
Married life had taught him the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood.
Let them all come,' said the Commdor, expansively. 'A symbolic friendly union of our nations. It will give us a chance for further friendly discussion. But one thing.' his face lengthened and grew ste...
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...
It lacks glamour?- It lacks mob emotion-appeal.- Same thing.
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...
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'-- The Last Trump
A great many things are possible. And to himself he added: But not practical.
Above all, never think you're not good enough. Never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
You’re surrounded by people in the waking period, and you feel their eyes and their hopes on you. You can’t stand up under it. In the sleep period, you’re free.
You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.
There is nothing your knife handlers can do in the way of rioting and demonstrating that will have any permanent effect as long as, in the extremity, there is an army equipped with kinetic, chemical,...
There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatable with the greater, the lesser must give way.