We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols, he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren’t supposed to stir up curiosity about G...
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form o...
Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.
The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on.How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.
What is the son but an extension of the father?
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
And he thought then about the Guild—the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never dared grasp th...
O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —
Duncan, have I not told you that when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?
Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind a...
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
You can't build politics on love, he said. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
Pride overcame Paul's fear. You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal? he demanded.Let us say I suggest you may be human, she said. Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand c...
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and th...
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans in the finite space of a planetary ecosystem as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flas...
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of s...
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