These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; vir...
I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.
What does a mirror look at?
There's coffee for those who want it,' the Duke said.
El misterio de la vida no es problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one nich...
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas,...
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections...
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even bel...
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. Yo...
Come, come, the Baron said. We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear Duke. The Baron looked up at Piter who stood at Leto's shoulder. Piter doesn't have all hi...
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, the Duke said. I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal posi...
Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me the most. I distrust extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find...
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
One of the key characteristics of an elite corps is its susceptibility to those more powerful than itself. Elite power is naturally attracted to a power hierarchy and fits itself neatly, obediently in...
A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears.
What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.
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