We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see.
– Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Everything I see is a projection. Within the Divine nothing is seen because everything is experienced as One in the eternal present. Since nothing is separate, eyes are not needed.
– Hugh Prather on David Parrish’s Nothing I See Means Anything
Violence is the diplomacy of the incompetent.
– Isaac Asimov, said by Hari Sheldon in Prelude To Foundation
The belief that we have the power, let alone the perception, to put anything and everything into words (or images) has taught us bad habits.
– Barry Lopez on The Tree by John Fowles
I’m what happens when the world forgets we’re here.
– Electric President, I’m Not The Lonely Son (I’m The Ghost)
Take me to those places, that I’ve never seen
It might make me that person, that I’ve never been
It might make me that friend, that you’ve always wanted
Yet you never had
– Masha Qrella, Saturday Night
Awe man who left this time all over the place and didn’t clean it up?
– Sean
This and more comes so easily. I tell you I wonder sometimes what is going on inside me. I seem to recall the time when so much was a mystery to me and now things are so clear. Problems are absent. I come across what might be one, and somehow, inside me, I see and understand. And my guesses, my theories seem always to be borne out. There’s a drive in me… always onward… so that I can’t stop… and I don’t want to eat or sleep… but always go on… and on… and on-
– Ebling Mis in Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
She didn’t know that was what she wanted. She only knew that the very openness of the open world was a great danger. She wanted a closed spot somewhere – somewhere far – somewhere in an unexplored nook of the universe – where no one would ever look.
– Arcadia, from Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
A circle has no end.
– Arcadia, from Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov