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Second Foundation

Name: Second Foundation
Author: Isaac Asimov

Second Foundation is the third novel published of the Foundation Series by American writer Isaac Asimov, and the fifth in the in-universe chronology. It was first published in 1953 by Gnome Press.

“The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 “Seldon’s Plan”

“A circle has no end.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Second Foundation

“To us, all life is a series of accidents to be met with improvisations. To them, all life is purposive and should be met with precalculation.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 16 "Beginning of War"

“No matter how the conomy and sociology of the neighbouring sectors of the Galaxy changes, there was always an elite; and it is always the characteristic of an elite that it possesses leisure as the great reward of its elite-hood.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 12 "Lord"

“One should cultivate an innocence, an awareness of self, and an unselfconsciousness of self which leaves one nothing to hide.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953), Chapter 8 "Seldon's Plan"

“Your emotions are, of course, only the children of your background and are not to be condemned - merely changed.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953)

“Finished products are for decadent minds.”

Isaac Asimov book Second Foundation

Source: The Foundation series (1951–1993), Second Foundation (1953)

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