Foundation's Edge
Isaac Asimov
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.”
“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”
“The advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”
“humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.”
“The Library was outmoded and archaic—it had been so even in Ebling Mis's time—but that was all to the good. Pelorat always rubbed his hands with excitement when he thought of an old and outmoded Library. The older and the more outmoded, the more likely it was to have what he needed. In his dreams, he would enter the Library and ask in breathless alarm, 'Has the Library been modernized? Have you thrown out the old tapes and computerizations?' And always he imagined the answer from dusty and ancient librarians, 'As it has been, Professor, so it is still.”
“Pelorat sighed. 'I will never understand people.' 'There's nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.”
“He didn’t believe that, surely.” “Of course not! But he had to pretend he did, as otherwise he would have had no choice but to be insulted. And since there would be nothing he could do about that, being insulted would only lead to humiliation. And since he didn’t want that, the simplest path to follow was to believe what I said.”
“There’s no record in the history of the Galaxy of any society being so foolish as to use nuclear explosions as a weapon of war.”
“Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.”
“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”
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