Your phraseology is obscure, but I think I understand.
Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty?
Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.
The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity—a hundred...
THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER.
People who don't expect justice don't have to suffer disappointment.
Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed
Meaning well is a poor defense,
It was almost inevitable. Those who worked directly for the Squires were only too glad to identify themselves with the rulers and make up for their real inferiority by a tighter adherence to the rules...
How harmful overspecialization is. It cuts knowledge at a million points and leaves it bleeding.
Galaxy, he hated them! He stopped himself, drew a firm breath...There was no use thinking hate...He had learned to bear in silence. He ought not forget what he had learned now. Of all times, not now.
Contra la estupidez, los propios dioses luchan en vano
But emotion had come upon him after all. Not for fifty billion people. What in Time did he care for fifty billion people? There was just one. One person.
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today, but the core of science fiction -- its essence -- has become crucial to our salvation,...
People think of education as something they can finish.
To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.
Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation — there wa...
Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.
Many years later he looked through one of my books and said, How did you learn all this, Isaac?From you, Pappa, I said.
If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could possibly have persuaded me to marry a woman who smoked. Dates, yes. Sexual adventures, yes. But to pin...