A. E. van Vogt Quotes :
“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.”
“The right to buy weapons is the right to be free.”
“Don’t let the past catch up with you unless it’s a memory you want to cherish.”
“It is the inability to bear defeat that leads to the need for victory.”
“There is no enemy in front of you or behind you. Only within.”
“Reality is only a term, based on values and well-worn principles, whereas the dream seems to have unlimited potential.”
“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”
“He was a man with a purpose, and that purpose was to forget.”
“If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.”
“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.”
“What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.”
“The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.”
“The essence of life is the frustration of established order.”
“He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty.”
“Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict.”
“To fight fear is like trying to dry water.”
“History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.”
“Everything must be free. Do as you will and pay the price.”
“The most merciful thing in the world is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.”
“In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded.”
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
“To live is to war with trolls.”
“Fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed.”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.”
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