“If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile.”
― Nature and Selected Essays
― Nature and Selected Essays
“Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“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 their traditions.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
“Give us but the chance and a new generation of Earthmen would grow to maturity, lacking insularity and believing wholeheartedly in the oneness of Man.”
― Pebble in the Sky
― Pebble in the Sky
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