No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.
I’m going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don’t find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
Once human beings realize something can be done, they’re not satisfied until they’ve done it.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s execution that counts.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.
Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.