Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy.
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.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.
Each life creates endless ripples.
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.
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles.
It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.
Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.
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.
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.
Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you someone who’s covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something cannot emerge from nothing,’ he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable ‘the truth’ can be.