Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics acce...
We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of...
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
What's law? Control? Law filters chaos and what drips through? Serenity? Law -- our highest ideal and our basest nature. Don't look too closely at the law. Do, and you'll find the rationalized interpr...
The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For...
At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable...
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
One moment of incompetence can be fatal.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God, she said. I just didn't think it would be this hard.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of ob...
If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we de...
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