When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
I am not the river I am the net.
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.