To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: free-will philosophy god dune
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual
Stichwörter: philosophy government
If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.
Frank HerbertAtrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: atrocity culpability
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: dune
I am not the river I am the net.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: wisdom
the sleeper must awaken
Frank HerbertDeep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: reality understanding muad-dib order princess-irulan
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
Frank HerbertHow often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Frank HerbertStichwörter: anger repression dissonance
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