All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that all paths ultimately converge at a central point, highlighting the inevitability of certain destinations in life.
Isaac Asimov's quote reflects the idea that all journeys, whether literal or metaphorical, lead to a common destination. In this case, Trantor symbolizes a center of knowledge, civilization, or fate, suggesting that despite the various routes we take, we may ultimately arrive at similar conclusions or places in life, much like how all stars are drawn to the vastness of the universe.
In practice
During a motivational speech about life choices, one might say, 'Remember, all roads lead to Trantor, so choose your path wisely.'
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.
Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.
Human beings cannot be willed and molded into non-existence.
Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms... And what does one form matter any more than another?... Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea... from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.
The big message of gospel is that you don't have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.
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