Vulcan proverbs

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Proverbs by the fictional race Vulcans from Star Trek.

• Live long and prosper.
  • Said on many occasions, normally accompanied by salute. Standard reply

• Peace and Long Life

• Nothing that is is unimportant

• Challenge your preconceptions, or they will challenge you

• Infinite diversity in infinite combinations

• Logic is as logic does

• My mind to your mind... my thoughts to your thoughts...
  • Chant used during Vulcan mind melds; this same expression was used in The X-Men # 3 (January 1964) by Professor Charles Francis Xavier.

• Only Nixon could go to China
  • Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

• May your journey be free of incident.
  • Saavik, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

• In accepting the inevitable, one finds peace
  • Tuvok, Star Trek Voyager: "Once Upon a Time"

• Nothing unreal exists.

• Logic is the cement of our civilization, with which we ascend from chaos, using reason as our guide.
  • T'Plana-Hath, Matron of Vulcan Philosophy

• Wanting is more pleasurable than having.

• We are here to serve.

• The needs of the many, outweigh the needs of the few.

• Logic is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom.
  • Perhaps derived from George Illes (1852 - 1942): "Doubt is the beginning, not the end of Wisdom."

• A Vulcan never bluffs.
  • Spock to Commodore Matt Decker from the original TV episode "The Doomsday Machine"