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The Best Prophets Lead You Up To The Curtain And Let You Peer Through For Yourself.

In My Estimation, More Misery Has Been Created By Reformers Than By Any Other Force In Human History.

He Who Can Destroy A Thing, Can Control A Thing.

The Best Contribution One Can Make To Humanity Is To Improve Oneself.

A Human Being Can Stand Any Amount Of Pain.

The Person Who Experiences Greatness Must Have A Feeling For The Myth He Is In.

Ask What Infinity Might Produce And The Only Answer Possible Was, "anything." Any Good, Any Evil; Any God, Any Devil.

They Say They Seek Security And Quiet, The Condition They Call Peace. Even As They Speak They Create The Seeds Of Turmoil And Violence.

Bureaucracy Destroys Initiative. There Is Little That Bureaucrats Hate More Than Innovation, Especially Innovation That Produces Better Results Than The Old Routines. Improvements Always Make Those At The Top Of The Heap Look Inept. Who Enjoys Appearing Inept?

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The Ultimate Test ... To See The Good In Evil And The Evil In Good.

There Is Only One True Wealth In All The Universe. I Have Given You Some Of It. I Have Given Your Father And Your Mate Some Of It. And Your Friends. This Wealth Is Living Time.

Power Attracts The Corruptible. Suspect All Who Seek It ... We Should Grant Power Over Our Affairs Only To Those Who Are Reluctant To Hold It And Then Only Under Conditions That Increase That Reluctance.

Without Change, Something Sleeps Inside Us, And Seldom Awakens. The Sleeper Must Awaken.

You Do Not Take From This Universe. It Grants You What It Will.

If You Believe Certain Words, You Believe Their Hidden Arguments. When You Believe Something Is Right Or Wrong, True Or False, You Believe The Assumptions In The Words Which Express The Arguments. Such Assumptions Are Often Full Of Holes, But Remain Most Precious To The Convinced.

I Never Thought It Would Be Easy To Serve God," She Said. "i Just Didn't Think It Would Be This Hard.

... Motivating People, Forcing Them To Your Will, Gives You A Cynical Attitude Toward Humanity. It Degrades Everything It Touches.

What Has Mood To Do With It? You Fight When The Necessity Arises—no Matter The Mood! Mood's A Thing For Cattle Or Making Love Or Playing The Baliset. It's Not For Fighting.

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 Most Important Survival Ability For Any Life Form Is The Ability To Change.

Law Of The Minimum: "the Worst Potential Competition For Any Organism Can Come From Its Own Kind. The Species Consumes Necessities. Growth Is Limited By That Necessity Which Is Present In The Least Amount. The Least Favourable Condition Controls The Rate Of Growth."

Journalism Is The Entertainment Business.

Entertainment Business

What Do You Despise? By This Are You Truly Known.

No More Terrible Disaster Could Befall Your People Than For Them To Fall Into The Hands Of A Hero.

When You Think You Know Something: That Is A Most Perfect Barrier Against Learning.

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Fear Is The Mind-killer.

We Bene Gesserit Sift People To Find The Humans.

The Proximity Of A Desirable Thing Tempts One To Overindulgence. On That Path Lies Danger.

The Summer Night Comes Brooding Down On Earth, As Love Comes Brooding Down On Human Hearts, With Bliss That Hath No Utterance Save Rich Tears. She Floats In Fragrance Down The Smiling Dark, Foldeth A Kiss Upon The Lips Of Life-- Curtaineth Into Rest The Weary World-- And Shuts Us In With All Our Hid Delights.

Thou Shalt Not Make A Machine In The Likeness Of A Human Mind.

When A Creature Has Developed Into One Thing, He Will Choose Death Rather Than Change Into His Opposite.

Jessica Stopped Beside Him, Said: 'what Delicious Abandon In The Sleep Of A Child.' He Spoke Mechanically: 'if Only Adults Could Relax Like That.' 'yes.' 'where Do We Lose It?' He Murmured. 'we Do, Indeed, Lose Something,' She Said.

I'm Going To Rub Your Faces In Things You Try To Avoid. I Don't Find It Strange That All You Want To Believe Is Only That Which Comforts You. How Else Do Humans Invent The Traps Which Betray Us Into Mediocrity? How Else Do We Define Cowardice?

A Killer With The Manners Of A Rabbit - This Is The Most Dangerous Kind.

Every Civilization Depends On The Quality Of The Individuals It Produces. If You Over-organize Humans, Over-legalize Them, Suppress Their Urge To Greatness-they Cannot Work And Their Civilization Collapses.

The Vision Of Time Is Broad, But When You Pass Through It, Time Becomes A Narrow Door.

She Looked At Patches Of Blackness. Black Is A Blind Remembering, She Thought.

Time Is A Measure Of Space, Just As A Range-finder Is A Measure Of Space, But Measuring Locks Us Into The Place We Measure.

I Live In An Apocalyptic Dream. My Steps Fit Into It So Precisely That I Fear Most Of All I Will Grow Bored Reliving The Thing So Exactly.

Producing Perfection From Imperfection Is, After All, The Highest Of Art Forms.

What Is The Son But An Extension Of The Father?

The Truth Always Carries The Ambiguity Of The Words Used To Express It.

When We Try To Conceal Our Innermost Drives, The Entire Being Screams Betrayal.

There Is In Each Of Us An Ancient Force That Takes And An Ancient Force That Gives. A Man Finds Little Difficulty Facing That Place Within Himself Where The Taking Force Dwells, But It's Almost Impossible For Him To See Into The Giving Force Without Changing Into Something Other Than Man. For A Woman, The Situation Is Reversed. ... These Things Are So Ancient Within Us That They're Ground Into Each Separate Cell Of Our Bodies... It's As Easy To Be Overwhelmed By Giving As By Taking.

It Is So Shocking To Find Out How Many People Do Not Believe That They Can Learn, And How Many More Believe Learning To Be Difficult.

Power Attracts The Corruptible. Suspect Any Who Seek It.

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Historians Exercise Great Power And Some Of Them Know It. They Recreate The Past, Changing It To Fit Their Own Interpretations. Thus, They Change The Future As Well.

Death Makes A Prophet's Voice Louder.

Truth Suffers From Too Much Analysis.

The People I Distrust Most Are Those Who Want To Improve Our Lives But Have Only One Course Of Action In Mind.

Give As Few Orders As Possible," His Father Had Told Him Once Long Ago. "once You've Given Orders On A Subject, You Must Always Give Orders On That Subject.

To The Soul's Desires The Body Listens What The Flesh Requires Keeps The Heart Imprisoned

Democracy Is Susceptible To Being Led Astray By Having Scapegoats Paraded In Front Of The Electorate.

Science Fiction, Because It Ventures Into No Man's Lands, Tends To Meet Some Of The Requirements Posed By Jung In His Explorations Of Archetypes, Myth Structures And Self-understanding. It May Be That The Primary Attraction Of Science Fiction Is That It Helps Us Understand What It Means To Be Human.

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Never Attempt To Reason With People Who Know They Are Right!

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The Joy Of Living, Its Beauty, Is All Bound Up In The Fact That Life Can Surprise You.

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Reason Is The First Victim Of Strong Emotion.

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The Greatest And Most Important Problems Of Life Cannot Be Solved. They Can Only Be Outgrown.

The Scarce Water Of Dune Is An Exact Analog Of Oil Scarcity. Choam Is Opec.

The Past Is No Farther Away Than Your Pillow.

The Successful Writer Listens To Himself.

Ecology Is Often Confused With Environmentalism, While In Fact, Environmentalism Often Leaves Out The Fact That People, Too, Can Be A Legitimate Part Of An Ecosystem.

Prophets Have A Way Of Dying By Violence.

There Has Never Been A Truly Selfless Rebel, Just Hypocrites—conscious Hypocrites Or Unconscious Hypocrites, It’s All The Same.

Major Flaw In Government Arise From A Fear Of Making Radical Internal Changes Even Though A Need Is Clearly Seen.

What You Cannot Control, You Must Accept.

Revenge Is For Children And The Emotionally Retarded.

These Are Illusions Of Popular History Which Successful Religion Must Promote: Evil Men Never Prosper; Only The Brave Deserve The Fair; Honesty Is The Best Policy; Actions Speak Louder Than Words; Virtue Always Triumpths; A Good Deed Is Its Own Rewards; Any Bad Human Can Be Reformed; Religious Talismans Protect One From Demon Possession; Only Females Understand The Ancient Mysteries; The Rich Are Doomed To Unhappiness

Justice? Who Asks For Justice? We Make Our Own Justice ... Let Us Not Rail About Justice As Long As We Have Arms And The Freedom To Use Them.

If You Need Something To Worship, Then Worship Life - All Life, Every Last Crawling Bit Of It! We're All In This Beauty Together!

Religion, Too, Is A Weapon. What Manner Of Weapon Is Religion When It Becomes The Government?

We Can Say That Maud'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.

Constitutions Become The Ultimate Tyranny," Paul Said. "they’re Organized Power On Such A Scale As To Be Overwhelming. The Constitution Is Social Power Mobilized And It Has No Conscience. It Can Crush The Highest And The Lowest, Removing All Dignity And Individuality. It Has An Unstable Balance Point And No Limitations.

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Does A Population Have Informed Consent When That Population Is Not Taught The Inner Workings Of Its Monetary System, And Then Is Drawn, All Unknowing, Into Economic Adventures?

A Storm Is Coming; Our Storm. Emperor - We Come For You!

When Law And Duty Are One, United By Religion, You Never Become Fully Conscious, Fully Aware Of Yourself. You Are Always A Little Less Than An Individual.

A World Is Supported By Four Things: The Learning Of Wise, The Justice Of Great, The Prayers Of The Righteous And The Valor Of The Brave. But All Of These Are As Nothing Without A Ruler Who Knows The Art Of Ruling.

There Are Limits To Power, As Those Who Put Their Hopes In A Constitution Always Discover.

No Matter How Much We Ask After The Truth, Self-awareness Is Often Unpleasant. We Do Not Feel Kindly Toward The Truthsayer.

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 Obstacles And Forget The Precipice Does Not Show Itself To The Man In A Blind Rush Until It's To Late.

Anything Outside Yourself, This You Can See And Apply Your Logic To It. But It's A Human Trait That When We Encounter Personal Problems, These Things Most Deeply Personal Are The Most Difficult To Bring Out For Our Logic To Scan. We Tend To Flounder Around, Blaming Everything But The Actual, Deep-seated Thing That's Really Chewing On Us.

Enemies Make You Stronger, Allies Make You Weaker.

All Governments Suffer A Recurring Problem: Power Attracts Pathological Personalities.

Mankind Has Only One Science… Its The Science Of Discontent.

A Good Companion Is One You Wouldn't Mind Dying With.

The Thing The Ecologically Illiterate Don't Realize About An Ecosystem Is That It's A System. A System! A System Maintains A Certain Fluid Stability That Can Be Destroyed By A Misstep In Just One Niche.

We Faced It And Did Not Resist. The Storm Passed Through Us And Around Us. It's Gone, But We Remain.

If You Think Of Yourselves As Helpless And Ineffectual, It Is Certain That You Will Create A Despotic Government To Be Your Master. The Wise Despot, Therefore, Maintains Among His Subjects A Popular Sense That They Are Helpless And Ineffectual.

Life - All Life - Is In The Service Of Life. Necessary Nutrients Are Made Available To Life By Life In Greater And Greater Richness As The Diversity Of Life Increases. The Entire Landscape Comes Alive, Filled With Relationships And Relationships Within Relationships.

There Is Not Secret To Balance. You Just Have To Feel The Waves.

The Singular Multiplicity Of This Universe Draws My Deepest Attention. It Is A Thing Of Ultimate Beauty. Leto Ii

A Man's Flesh Is His Own; The Water Belongs To The Tribe.

When You Imagine Mistakes, There Can Be No Self-defense.

Many Have Marked The Speed With Which Muad'dib Learned The Necessities Of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, Of Course, Know The Basis Of This Speed. For The Others, 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. It Is Shocking To Find How Many People Do Not Believe They Can Learn, And How Many More Believe Learning To Be Difficult. Muad'dib Knew That Every Experience Carries Its Lesson.

War Is The Most Readily Available Form Of Chaos.

You See, Gentlemen, They Have Something To Die For. They've Discovered They're A People. They're Awakening.

Once Human Beings Realize Something Can Be Done, They're Not Satisfied Until They've Done It.

The Dice Cannot Read Their Own Spots.

Any Man Who Retreats Into A Cave Which Has Only One Opening Deserves To Die.

Since Every Individual Is Accountable Ultimately To The Self, The Formation Of That Self Demands Our Utmost Care And Attention.

Education Is No Substitute For Intelligence.

The Mind Goes On Working No Matter How We Try To Hold It Back.

Survival Is The Ability To Swim In Strange Water.

When Politics And Religion Are Intermingled, A People Is Suffused With A Sense Of Invulnerability, And Gathering Speed In Their Forward Charge, They Fail To See The Cliff Ahead Of Them

The Mind Commands The Body And It Obeys. The Mind Orders Itself And Meets Resistance.

I Don't Worry About Inspiration, Or Anything Like That. It's A Matter Of Just Sitting Down And Working.

Much That Was Called Religion Has Carried An Unconscious Attitude Of Hostility Toward Life. True Religion Must Teach That Life Is Filled With Joys Pleasing To The Eye Of God, That Knowledge Without Action Is Empty. All Men Must See That The Teaching Of Religion By Rules And Rote Is Largely A Hoax. The Proper Teaching Is Recognized With Ease. You Can Know It Without Fail Because It Awakens Within You That Sensation Which Tells You This Is Something You’ve Always Known.

The Whole Universe Sat There, Open To The Man Who Could Make The Right Decisions.

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 Limits On Variability And Thus Makes Whole Populations Fatally Vulnerable To The Shocking Ways Our Universe Can Throw The Dice.

We Never Get Far From Wealth And All Of Its Masks When We Deal With Power.

Time Can Also Be A Place.... Everything Depends On Where You Are Standing, On Where You Look Or What You Hear. The Measure Of It Is Found In Consciousness Itself.

Paired Opposites Define Your Longings And Those Longings Imprison You.

How Often It Is That The Angry Man Rages Denial Of What His Inner Self Is Telling Him.

Scientists Seek The Lawfulness Of Events. It Is The Task Of Religion To Fit Man Into This Lawfulness.

The Person Who Takes The Banal And Ordinary And Illuminates It In A New Way Can Terrify. We Do Not Want Our Ideas Changed.

Parting With Friends Is A Sadness. A Place Is Only A Place.

History Is A Constant Race Between Invention And Catastrophe.

Good Governance Never Depends Upon Laws, But Upon The Personal Qualities Of Those Who Govern. The Machinery Of Government Is Always Subordinate To The Will Of Those Who Administer That Machinery. The Most Important Element Of Government, Therefore, Is The Method Of Choosing Leaders.

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The Most Terrifying Things In The Universe Came From Human Minds.

Membership In A Conspiracy, As In An Army, Frees People From The Sense Of Personal Responsibility.

There's A Lesson In Every Temptation.

Give Me A Lamp So I Can Find The Day.

Guilt Starts As A Feeling Of Failure.

The Stakes In Conflict Do Not Change. Battle Determines Who Will Control The Wealth Or Its Equivalent.

Most Believe That A Satisfactory Future Requires A Return To An Idealized Past, A Past Which Never In Fact Existed.

One Must Cast Off Old Agonies As A Snake Casts Off Its Skin--only To Grow A New Set And Accept All Of Their Limitations.

Emotions Are The Curse Of Logic.

In 1054, The Patriarch Of Constantinople And The Pope Excommunicated Each Other. That Was The End Of Holiness For Both Churches.

I Don’t Think It’s Quite That Simple. Some People Never Observe Anything, Life Just Happens To Them. They Get By On Little More Than A Kind Of Dumb Persistence, And They Resist With Anger And Resentment Anything That Might Lift Them Out Of That False Serenity.

A Popular Man Arouses The Jealousy Of The Powerful.

Learning A Language Represents Training In The Delusions Of That Language.

Politics: The Art Of Appearing Candid And Completely Open While Concealing As Much As Possible.

Think You Of The Fact That A Deaf Person Cannot Hear. Then, What Deafness May We Not All Possess? What Senses Do We Lack That We Cannot See And Cannot Hear Another World All Around Us?

Ambitions Tend To Remain Undisturbed By Realities.

There Is Probably No More Terrible Instant Of Enlightenment Than The One In Which You Discover Your Father Is A Man - With Human Flesh.

Enormous Problems Arise When Human Mistakes Are Made On The Grand Scale Available To A Superhero... Heroes Are Painful, Superheroes Are A Catastrophe. The Mistakes Of Superheroes Involve Too Many Of Us In Disaster.

Caution Is The Path To Mediocrity.

There's Hope Left In These Dusty Chords. There's A Song Left In Our Rusty Hearts. We Are Torn And Frayed But Love Remains.

The Act Of Saying That Things Exist That Cannot Be Described In Words Shakes A Universe Where Words Are The Supreme Belief.

War Is Behavior With Roots In The Single Cell Of The Primeval Seas. Eat Whatever You Touch Or It Will Eat You.

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.

One Uses Power By Grasping It Lightly. To Grasp Too Strongly Is To Be Taken Over By Power, And Thus To Become Its Victim.

It Is Said That There Is A Principle Of Conflict Which Originated With The Single Cell And Has Never Deteriorated.

What Does A Mirror Look At?

I Am Not The Kind Of Person I Want To Be.

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?

If You Ask "should We Be In Space?" You Ask A Nonsense Question. We Are In Space. We Will Be In Space.

I Cry For Those Not Yet Dead.

To Endure Oneself May Be The Hardest Task In The Universe. You Cannot Hire A Wise Man Or Any Other Intellect To Solve It For You. There's No Writ Of Inquest Or Calling Of Witness To Provide Answers.

Grief Is The Price Of Victory.

There Exists A Limit To The Force Even The Most Powerful May Apply Without Destroying Themselves. Judging This Limit Is The True Artistry Of Government. Misuse Of Power Is The Fatal Sin.

All Governments Suffer A Recurring Problem: Power Attracts Pathological Personalities. It Is Not That Power Corrupts But That It Is Magnetic To The Corruptible.

I Have Come To Believe That Holy Boredom Is Good And Sufficient Reason For The Invention Of Free Will.

Do Actions Agree With Words? There's Your Measure Of Reliability. Never Confine Yourself To The Words.

That Path Leads Ever Down Into Stagnation.

Confine Yourself To Observing And You Always Miss The Point Of Your Life. The Object Can Be Stated This Way: Live The Best Life You Can. Life Is A Game Whose Rules You Learn If You Leap Into It And Play It To The Hilt. Otherwise, You Are Caught Off Balance, Continually Surprised By The Shifting Play. Non-players Often Whine And Complain That Luck Always Passes Them By. They Refuse To See That They Can Create Some Of Their Own Luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Fear Is The Mind-killer. Fear Is The Little-death That Brings Total Obliteration.

When Religion And Politics Ride In The Same Cart, The Whirlwind Follows.

Religion And Politics

There's An Unwritten Compact Between You And The Reader. If Someone Enters A Bookstore And Sets Down Hard Earned Money (energy) For Your Book, You Owe That Person Some Entertainment And As Much More As You Can Give.

Does A Population Have Informed Consent When A Ruling Minority Acts In Secret To Ignite A War, Doing This To Justify The Existence Of The Minority's Forces? ... Failure To Provide Full Information For Informed Consent On Such An Issue Represents An Ultimate Crime.

Confine Yourself To Observing And You Always Miss The Point Of Your Own Life.

The Difference Between Sentiment And Being Sentimental Is The Following: Sentiment Is When A Driver Swerves Out Of The Way To Avoid Hitting A Rabbit On The Road. Being Sentimental Is When The Same Driver, When Swerving Away From The Rabbit, Hits A Pedestrian.

A Leader Is One Of The Things That Distinguishes A Mob From A People. He Maintains The Level Of Individuals. Too Few Individuals And A People Reverts To A Mob.

We Tend To Become Like The Worst In Those We Oppose.

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.

Killing With The Point Lacks Artistry, But Don't Let That Hold Your Hand When The Opening Presents Itself.

The Sleeper Must Awaken.

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