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“When surrounded by ignorance, the educated man can get away with anything.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

“There is nothing more futile than arguing with someone who has no basis for his opinions but a vague backlash of emotions.”
― A.E. van Vogt, The Gryb

“Information is always to be treasured. It is behind only love and honesty in a person’s attempt to understand the universe.”
― Dan Simmons, Endymion

“There is little enough dignity in birth but there is none whatever in death.”
― Robert Rankin, They Came and Ate Us: Armageddon II: The B-Movie

“Oh, God - the lives people try to lead!
Oh, God - what a world they try to lead them in!”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Mother Night

“All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“Consequently people think that there is a class or order somewhere just above them or just below them, or a country or place somewhere that is really safe and happy... The fact is, that Society is one body, and it is either well or ill. That is the law.”
― H.G.Wells

“Sometimes in the equation that the strong protect the weak there is the difficulty in determining who is strong and who is weak.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Divine Invasion

“Two men look out through the same bars. One sees the mud, and one the stars.”
― Frederick Langbridge

“Even the simplest plans go wrong, especially when put together by the simplest people.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

“Living in a cage teaches you helplessness.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

“A vast and worthless education is the greatest gift a child can have.”
― Adrian Tchaikovsky, Cage of Souls

“Who would bother hating, if it had to be reasoned out into sensibleness first?”
― Isaac Asimov, Nemesis

“She has her own store of courage. Her own way of fighting. She turns and confronts things. Me, I slink about and try to hamstring them when they aren’t looking. Sometimes, she makes me feel a coward”
― Robin Hobb, Royal Assassin

“He’s so mad it’s not funny.”
― D. G. Compton, The Steel Crocodile

“Løgnen er som en sulten katt, den gnir seg kjælent mot bena til hvem som helst - og blir trodd, klappet og fôret av de fleste.”
― Tor Åge Bringsværd, Kalifens gave

“Nolite te bastardes carborundorum. Don't let the bastards grind you down.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“A philosopher is a scientific tradesman, who, for a certain price, sells prescriptions of self-denial, temperance and poverty; he generally preaches the pains of wealth, till he becomes rich himself, when he abandons the world for a comfortable and dignified retreat. The father of the philosophers, Seneca, is said to have collected royal wealth.

A poet is one who makes a great stir with printed prattle, falsehood and fury. Madness is the characteristic of the true poet. All those who express themselves, with clearness, precision and simplicity are deemed unworthy of the laurel wreath.

The grammarians are a sort of military body, who disturb the public peace. They are distinguished from all other warriors, by dress and weapons. They wear black instead of colored uniforms, and wield pens rather than swords. They fight with as much obstinacy for letters and words as do the others for liberty and father-land.”
― Ludvig Holberg, The Journey of Niels Klim to the World Underground

“A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“Life is problems. Living is solving problems.”
― Raymond E. Feist, Silverthorn

“The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune