I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I wi...
It could be a work of art among vendettas
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of...
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe...
How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I ch...
A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it,...
We can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known. —
The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The universe is full of doors,
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Monarchies have some good features beyond their star qualities. They can reduce the size and parasitic nature of the management bureaucracy. They can make speedy decisions when necessary. They fit an...
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.