Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
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...
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 pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him. The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing. It suffused his body and he felt himself to be large, very large, not a ch...
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. Step...
They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encounter...
They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.
Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known.
From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural...
Humans are almost always lonely.
They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
We don’t need any more Atreides gods! We need a space for some humanity!
Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the d...
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