A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It’s be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
But it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.
What you cannot control, you must accept.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
If you ask “Should we be in space?” you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.