Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)

by Isaac Asimov

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

‘The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie.’

All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

“We abandoned the appearance of power to preserve the essence of it.”