“I’m being accused of modesty, a horrible and thoroughly unnatural crime.”
― Foundation and Empire
― Foundation and Empire
“It’s bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don’t be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.”
― Broken Angels
― Broken Angels
“Pyscho-history dealt not with man, but with man-masses. It was the science of mobs; mobs in their billions. It could forecast reactions to stimuli with something of the accuracy that a lesser science could bring to the forecast of a rebound of a billiard ball. The reaction of one man could be forecast by no known mathematics; the reaction of a billion is something else again.”
― Foundation and Empire
― Foundation and Empire
“Structural linguistics is a bitterly divided and unhappy profession, and a large number of its practitioners spend many nights drowning their sorrows in Ouisghian Zodahs.”
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
― The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
“The grandiose person is never really free; first because he is excessively dependent on admiration from others, and second, because his self-respect is dependent on qualities, functions, and achievements that can suddenly fail.”
― The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
― The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
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