The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
The thing the ecologically illiterate don’t realize about an ecosystem, Kynes said, is that it’s a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in...
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not even e...
The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the...
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
It’d be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
I should've suspected trouble when the coffee failed to arrive.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more a...
For what do you hunger, Lord? Moneo ventured.For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability t...
For the others, we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how...
Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even fr...
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.