Quotes About Legacy

Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me." -I did nothing for you." -You loved me and your love made me--human.

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

No individual death among human beings is important. Someone who dies leaves his work behind and that does not entirely die. It never entirely dies as long as humanity exists.

The word 'tradition' covered it all, as it covered so many things, some useful, some foolish.

The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all.

Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else.

the only people that inherited anything by right of birth were the congenital idiots.

I shall not be alive a half decade hence," said Seldon, "and yet it is of overpowering concern to me. Call it idealism. Call it an identification of myself with that mystical generalization to which we refer by the term, 'man.

John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

Earthmen may even rule at Trantor for a generation, but their children will become Trantorians, and in their turn will look down upon the remnant on Earth.

Human beings can tolerate an immortal robot, for it doesn't matter how long a machine lasts, but they cannot tolerate an immortal human being since their own mortality is endurable only so long as it is universal.

centuries would yet pass before the mighty works of fifty generations of humans would decay past use. Only the declining powers of men, themselves, rendered them useless now.

Work of each individual contributes to a totality and so becomes undying part of a totality. That totality is human life. Past and present and to come forms a tapestry that has been in existence now for many tens and thousands of years. And has been growing more elaborate, and on the whole more beautiful.

Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.

His honor, rests in the very actions that led to his conviction and death. It is beyond your power to add to or detract from it.

Habrá otras crisis en el porvenir, cuando el poder del dinero se haya convertido en una fuerza muerta como es ahora la religión. Que mis sucesores resuelvan esos nuevos problemas, como yo he resuelto el del presente.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

commonly known as simply "The Foundation

Chen said, Dr. Seldon, you disturb the peace of the Emperor's realm. None of the quadrillions living now among all the stars of the Galaxy will be living a century from now. Why, then, should we concern ourselves with events of three centuries distance?

There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past.

That old?" The old man sighed. "History has been crowded since.

The image of Hari Seldon reached into open air and the book once more appeared in his hand. He opened it and said: "But whatever devious course your future history may take, impress it always upon your descendants that the path has been marked out, and that at its end is a new and greater Empire!

Ez a maga dolga, nem? Mivégre tettem meg magát akkor köznevelésügyi és propagandaminiszternek? – Nyilván, hogy idÅ' elÅ'tt nyomorultul a sírba tegyen, amennyi segítséget kapok magától.

The Foundation can never lose, but that does not mean the rulers of the Foundation can't.