47 quotes
The real struggle is between order and anarchy.
All Fools' Day (1966)
He who expects little is rarely disappointed.
Seed of Light (1959)
Behind the apparent unreason there is reason.
The Overman Culture (1971)
How does one objectively define madness ?
Prisonner of Fire (1974)
Even you must appreciate that to destroy the personnality while preserving the body is simply another kind of death.
Prisonner of Fire (1974)
What is god but an extension of the ego - a sort of megalomania by proxy?
A Far Sunset (1967)
But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love.
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.
Transit (1964)
I believe our only hope of immortality lies in our actions, in what we do to and for others, and in our children.
The Tenth Planet (1973)
There is no truth but untruth. There is no reason but unreason.
The Overman Culture (1971)
Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding.
Seed of Light (1959)
In a fantastic world, the fantastic had become merely ordinary.
All Fools' Day (1966)
There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.
The Uncertain Midnight (1958)
Historically, the developement of machines had amplified man's ability to destroy.
The cloud walker (1973)
Without mankind machines are nothing.
The Overman Culture (1971)
Life itself has become ludicrous.
All Fools' Day (1966)
Men who are afraid live longer.
A Far Sunset (1967)
For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.
Seed of Light (1959)
Mankind has never been renowned for accepting logical solutions to its most serious problems. As a rule, the degre of logicality of solutions seemed to vary inversely with the urgency or seriousness of the problems.
Five to Twelve (1968)
When one flowers dies, another is born.
The Tenth Planet (1973)