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Do you want an absolute prediction? Then you want only today, and you reject tomorrow. You are the ultimate conservative. You are trying to hold back movement in an infinitely changing universe. The verb to be does make idiots of us all.
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Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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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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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.
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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.
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' Life exists immersed in a sea of unconsciousness', he reminded himself. 'In the drug, these people gain a view of that sea'.
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Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. 'Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!'
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Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
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'I only believe in certain kinds of hell,' she said, and again she was looking at him, the green eyes steady.'To each his own, eh?''You said it; I didn’t.'
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That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
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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 will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
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What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
Frank Herbert
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Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
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Without coming fully awake, Rhin felt his presence beside her, experienced a primitive demand for his protective masculinity. She nestled against him, murmured, 'its so hot. Doesn’t it ever cool off?'
Frank Herbert