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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b7050de | The acceptance of indeterminacy is the beginning of wisdom," the hermit quoted. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 83a65a0 | Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don't like it much either. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 1842fc7 | All men are mortal, he tells us, but some are more mortal than others. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 3352d63 | Last week we revoked his Godhead; we caught him operating a life without a license. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 79a7c6f | In a way it made no difference, since nothing is permanent except our illusions. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| ce94eb7 | A little prescience goes a long way, especially in a galaxy as disorganized as this one. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 61c5a2f | Remember, similitude need not imply exactitude. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| f57a0c9 | Blount's face registered psychopathic amazement, idiot incredulity, moronic disbelief. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| c33ee31 | Words, in the final analysis, are just about as futile as actions, and much less fun. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 1d280ae | I've never been able to understand that custom.""Not all customs have to have a reason." | Robert Sheckley | ||
| b298cb9 | Michelangelo," Teresa said, "you shouldn't blaspheme.""Who's blaspheming? I'm praying." | Robert Sheckley | ||
| 820df47 | He was the sort of man the essence of whose presence is absence. | Robert Sheckley | ||
| f1f7626 | Stale is stale and borrowed is borrowed, no matter how original your models may have been. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| d8c166f | It is my craft and my science to Watch. It is yours to jeer. Each of us to our specialty. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| d56984e | I find the world and all it contains extremely fascinating. Is this sinful? | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 9867abd | Anything big and strange always upsets the people in power. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 65ec336 | Moas aren't very bright," Gracchus answers. "That's one good reason why they became extinct." | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 20f879e | He didn't have to observe the niceties of etiquette when talking to a computer. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| fbfd060 | Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 9fcd416 | She loaned him books. Worlds were revealed to him: worlds piled on worlds, worlds without end. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 51fbc0d | I hate no one, sir. It seems a waste of emotional energy. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| e7809d1 | Never pass by a chance to shut up. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 3b8e235 | Take this as a bit of easy wisdom: people who try to rule over other people are going to be hated. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 72a74c5 | Like all bureaucrats, he was bewildered by an unpredictable development. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 4a4a9f4 | Only a man who doubts his own bravery bristles when called a coward. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 159a623 | A man who lies to himself is the worst liar of all. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 5f6205b | Why conjure up galactic spaceships when meteors were so common? | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 5c52942 | The fascination of what's difficult," said Chalk. "It spins the world on its bearings." | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 5e885bb | She shuttled between impish girlhood and neurotic womanhood. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 4e4b243 | Do I chatter?""Should I be honest or should I be tactful?" | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 4f398df | The universe is a perilous place. We do our best. Everything else is unimportant. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| f4b4069 | Ignorance can't be pardoned. Only cured. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 7dba6ba | When you treat a rational autonomous creature as though he's a mere beast, what does that make you? | Robert Silverberg | ||
| ae93d81 | You may not hold me guilty of sins committed in dreams. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 99448d1 | All true enlightenment is illegal at first, within its context. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 092c7b1 | Knowledge never injures the soul. It only purges that which encrusts and saps the soul. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 7b0683e | Love of others begins with love of self. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 7beb373 | What value is lineage to a drowning man? | Robert Silverberg | ||
| f34ae6a | My only regrets were for poor tactics, not for faulty principles. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 599a243 | Morality after the fact, said Eli from the rear, is worse than no morality at all. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 0214bbd | The more you succeed in making out of yourself, the more bitter a thing it is to have to die. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 2bfc1d0 | We are born by accident into a purely random universe. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 0b97174 | Gottfried, like any true dictator, liked to surround himself with bland obliging ciphers. | Robert Silverberg | ||
| 73ace50 | It's not a philosophy, Mr. Nichols. It's an accommodation to the nature of reality. | Robert Silverberg |