Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'-- The Last Trump
In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light.
In themselves, harmless. As a group, incredibly dangerous.
It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion.
Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see.
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
Presumably, such is the folly of human beings, the prospects of intellectual suicide might not stop them from indulging their hatred,
The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity
The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that i...
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.
The psychohistoric trend of a planet-full of people contains a huge inertia. To be changed it must be met with something possessing a similar inertia. Either as many people must be concerned, or if th...
The religion we have is our all-important instrument towards that end. With it we have brought the Four Kingdoms under our control, even at the moment when they would have crushed us. It is the most p...
The robot had no feelings, only positronic surges that mimicked those feelings. (And perhaps human beings had no feelings, only neuronic surges that were interpreted as feelings.)
There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.
There is no right to deny freedom to any object with a mind advanced enough to grasp the concept and desire the state.
There's probably no one so easily bribed, but he lacks even the fundamental honesty of honorable corruption. He doesn't stay bribed; not for any sum.
These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing.
They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want...
Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.
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