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 gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.
If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” – which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Hope clouds observation.
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God’s universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows – a wall against the wind.
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.