"The crazy fools!" muttered Otho. "Begging for a dictator, just because they're scared by a pack of lies".
Captain Future #2: Calling Captain Future (1940)
Edmond Hamilton
"The crazy fools!" muttered Otho. "Begging for a dictator, just because they're scared by a pack of lies".
Captain Future #2: Calling Captain Future (1940)
Edmond Hamilton
Beware of first-hand ideas!” exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. “First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that disturbing element — direct observation.
"Nonsense. I am a realist. I face the future, not the past."
"But the future is built of material taken from the past, and how can we build securely when we do not know what our past has been?
"An historian is of value only as he can translate the past in terms of the present."
Ignorance invokes fear. It's the law.