I know where I came from – but where did all you zombies come from?
But it’s a hell of a note when you can’t even kill a dragon and feel lighthearted afterwards.
I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.
For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... until Hilda came along and demonstrated that the universe is not logical but whimsical, its structure depending solely on the dreams and nightmares of non-logical dreamers.
The fact that he had broken his oath more times than there were years intervening did not trouble him; his was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
Sit back down – and for God’s sake quit trying to be as nasty as I am; you don’t have my years of practice.
All three of us are prisoners of our early indoctrinations, for it is hard, very nearly impossible, to shake off one’s earliest training.
Dr. Jubal Harshaw, professional clown, amateur subversive, and parasite by choice, had long attempted to eliminate “hurry” and all related emotions from his pattern. Being aware that he had but a short time left to live and having neither Martian nor Kansan faith in his own immortality, it was his purpose to live each golden moment as if it were eternity – without fear, without hope, but with sybaritic gusto.
There’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we will.” Free will and predestination in one sentence and both true.
Because the pursuit of science, despite its social benefits, is itself not a social virtue; its practitioners can be men so self-centered as to be lacking in social responsibility.
Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Do you speak English?” “Certainly. And I understand American.
Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;.
A man who bets on greed an dishonesty won’t be wrong too often.
Indian government seemed as furious over fish as fishermen – but principle of sacredness of all life did not apply to us; they wanted our heads.
From somewhere, back in my youth, heard Prof say, ‘Manuel, when faced with a problem you do not understand, do any part of it you do understand, then look at it again.
Well, I’ll stick to the Old Testament, picking it to pieces usually doesn’t upset people quite so much.
But, to tell the truth, a soldier doesn’t notice a war much more than a civilian does, except his own tiny piece of it and that just on the days it is happening.
Hendrick, I have explained these matters to you because it is useless to punish a man unless he knows why he is being punished.
A scientifically verifiable theory of morals must be rooted in the individual’s instinct to survive – and nowhere else! – and must correctly describe the hierarchy of survival, note the motivations at each level, and resolve all conflicts.