To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There’d be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class – whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not…yet, I occurred.
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not…yet, I occurred.
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred there waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,” Tuek said. “You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture – it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
Where is there substance in a universe composed of events? Paul asked. Is there a final answer? Doesn’t each solution produce new questions?You’ve digested so much time you have delusions of immortality. the ghola said. Even your Empire, my lord, must live its time and die.
I drove my feet through a desertWhose mirage fluttered like a host.Voracious for glory, greedy for danger, I roamed the horizons of al-Kulab. Watching time level mountainsIn its search and its hunger for me.And I saw the sparrows swiftly approach, Bolder than the onrushing wolf.They spread in the tree of my youth. I heard the flock in my branchesAnd was caught on their beaks and claws!
Do you wrestle with dreams?Do you contend with shadows?Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away.Your life is stolen.You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
If we cannot adjust our differences peacefully we are less than human
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.