Holiness has replaced love in your religion!
Earth? Golden Age?” Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us “The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
The universe does not work by our rules.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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.
There’s a lesson in every temptation.