Sublime

Because it was through trivia that the mind was anchored in reality, as the largest oak tree was rooted, ultimately, in a system of rootlets no larger than the silver hairs on the president’s head.

“You are a pissing fool, Titus. You never evolved. Never got past the first test. You thought this whole thing is about violence and killing. Idiot. It’s about civilization, not war. To have an army, you must first have a civilization—you went straight to violence like they wanted us to. Why do you think they gave us of Mars nothing and the other

Place one hundred people on an island from which there is no escape. Make one of them the absolute owner of the others – or the absolute owner of the soil. It will make no difference – either to the owner or to the others – which one you choose. Either way, one individual will be the absolute master of the other ninety-nine. Denying permission to

for though only the society could give security and stability, only the individual, the person, had the power of moral choice—the power of change, the essential function of life.

When you are wrestling for possession of a sword, the man with the handle always wins.

utilitarian

“As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.” – Arthur C. Clarke