To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
From Frank Herbert
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.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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