Book: Chapter Of The Dunes

Answers is a dangerous stranglehold on the universe. They can be of course, but it explains nothing.

Silence is best sometimes to say.

All governments suffer from the same intractable problem: power attracts pathological personalities. Not that power corrupts, no, but it attracts like a magnet, people are already prone to degradation.

Put yourself in the position of an observer, and you always miss the essence of his life. This provision can be worded as follows: "Live the fullest possible life." Life is a game whose rules you can learn only by participating in it and playing to the end. Otherwise you will not be able to maintain balance and will constantly be surprised by the variability of fate. Outside observers constantly complain that fortune always turns away from them, and good luck passing by. Such people refuse to understand that they themselves, at least partly, the creators of their own luck.

... I know the essence of people, which they deny in words but acknowledge their actions. They argue that looking for peace of mind and reliability, that they call peace. But even saying these words, they do not cease to sow the seeds of discord and violence.

Show me an absolutely perfect job, and I'll show you a man that hides mistakes. Big boat in the sea always shakes.

Love has a dangerous quality. Love the subtlety of dulled sensations. You can't give someone a stick with which you will beat.

All the most important may become unimportant for the moment, between two heart beat.

There is no such body of law which would meet all needs. A crime in one society may seem to be a requirement of morality in the other.

You can break in the moment when you think you have taken into your own hands its destiny. Be careful and ready for surprises. When we do, there are other forces acting in the same field.

Paired opposites restrict your aspirations, and you become their hostage.

In the end, you know something just because you want to believe, I know.

People are born, suffering exposure to the most persistent and debilitating of all intellectual diseases, - self-deception. This disease imparts dramatic color the best and the worst of all possible worlds. In our opinion, to the disease there is no natural immunity. Need for constant vigilance.

I'm not a river - I network.