The Enlightenment is conventionally placed in the last two-thirds of the 18th century, though it flowed out of the
“When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everyone will respect you.”
― Tao Te Ching
― Tao Te Ching
“Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
“If a man decides that it is better for him to resist the demands of a present feeble love, in the name of another, of a future manifestation, he deceives either himself or other people, and loves no one but himself. Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.”
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“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
― Foundation
― Foundation
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