The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.
That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.
TO THE LADY JESSICA-May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts...
Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water’s passage. The water flowed off those walls without bi...
Stilgar put a hand on Idaho’s shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension...
People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize huma...
Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes...
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. ‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the liken...
No conocerás el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado...
Nie wolno się bać.Strach zabija duszę.Strach to mała śmierć, a wielkie unicestwienie.Stawię mu czoło.Niechaj przejdzie po mnie i przeze mnie.
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? —Bene
Kad se pretjerano koristi, čak se i odanost na kraju istroši.
It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule, Idaho said. Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for f...
It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.
Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica
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...