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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
“You may have eternity. I have only now.” “But this is eternity.”
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces.