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—Darwi Odrade", "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense; the real universe is always one step beyond logic", "Did you build high walls around you only to sit within them and indulge in self-pity?", "Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.", "Does the prophet see the future? Or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions?", "Endurance. Belief. Patience. Hope. These are the key words of our existence.", "Euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: I feed on your energy.", "Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray or countermand any conscious intention of the collectivity", "Four things cannot be hidden—love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.", "Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time.", "Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern.", "He is the fool saint, The golden stranger living forever On the edge of reason. Let your guard fall and he is there!", "He will not be found, yet all men will find him.", "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.", "I assure you from a God’s Olympian perch that government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.", "I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.", "I have said: “Blow out the lamp! Day is here!” And you keep saying: “Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”
—Bijaz to Hayt", "If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!", "In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships...", "Irulan’s mother obeyed her Sister Superiors where the Lady Jessica disobeyed. Which of them was the stronger? History already has answered.", "It’s a loss... the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can’t evade it.", "Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.", "Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt.", "“Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it,” she said. “But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.", "Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask “Why?” Be cautious with “How?”", "No law of nature is unchanging. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness", "No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity...", "No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.", "O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.", "Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.", "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.", "Show me a completely smooth operation and I’ll show you a cover up. Real boats rock.", "the desert chameleon, whose ability to blend into its background tells you all you need to know about the foundation of a personal identity.", "The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.", "The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.", "The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.", "The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.", "The sins of this universe would trouble anyone.
—a Fish Speaker", "The three legs of the agreement-tripod are desire, data and doubt. Accuracy and honesty have nothing to do with it.", "The Universe is God’s. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified.", "There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.", "There exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity.", "There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.", "There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.", "Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess?", "This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around.", "True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty.", "Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!", "Ultimately all things are known because you want to believe you know.", "We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.", "What am I? The ultimate loner forced to look at what might have been. Every day I look at it... —Leto", "What do you despise? By this you are truly known.", "What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?", "When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.", "when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.", "When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles;", "When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences of custom and training.", "You could drag humankind almost anywhere by manipulating the enormous energies of procreation.", "You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.", "You know [proper learning] without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.", "You must look at it with as few preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: “Now what is this thing doing?”", "There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.", "The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever."]; function showQuotes() { document.getElementById('rQuote').innerHTML = '

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