Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are somtimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy...
I have been a stranger in a strange land, Halleck quoted. Paul stared at him, recognizing the quotation from the O.C. Bible, wondering: Does Gurney, too, wish an end to devious plots?
I am not the river I am the net.
Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response—never to forgive and never to forget.
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.
Growing older is to grow more wicked.
Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces with...
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity. —
Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings.-Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld)
Em tempos, os homens entregavam o pensamento às máquinas, na esperança de que isso os libertasse. Mas só permitiu que outros homens com máquinas os escravizassem
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.
Divide and rule, subdivide and rule even more powerfully, fragment and rule absolutely. That’s
Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed
As you well know, the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.
Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.
All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.