Men afraid may see demons in the familiar, and direct their fear of the insensible to a fear of the sensible." "Thought-lacking!" "So it is; but it i… - Michael F. Flynn

What the prisoner said made some sense. He could see how technological progress—and social change with it—was coupled with free trade and the free exchange of ideas. Yet, he wasn’t at all sure that it was necessarily a good thing. There was a lot to be said for stability and continuity.

The philosophy of the likelihood of events concludes that folk from different worlds must have different forms.

Philosophers will always have logical reasons for avoiding the good—and those reasons will always hang on their lust for material goods. A man who has little thinks little of sharing it; but the man who has much will clutch it with his dying fingers.