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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Religion
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Topic: Religion
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
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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Topic: Death
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
From Dune
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Topic: Education
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Topic: Life
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Topic: Death
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Education
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
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Topic: Philosophical
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity....The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Topic: Motivational
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
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Topic: Education
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical
My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Religion
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Religion
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Topic: Religion
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
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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Topic: Death
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
From Dune
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Topic: Education
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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Topic: Life
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Topic: Death
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Education
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity....The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Topic: Motivational
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
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Topic: Education
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical
My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Religion
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Religion
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other.
That was the end of holiness for both churches.
From The White Plague
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Topic: Religion
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
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
From Dune
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Topic: Death
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
From Dune
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Religion
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Philosophical
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
From Dune
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Topic: Education
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
Some say," Scytale said, "that people cling to Imperial leadership because space is infinite. They feel lonely without a unifying symbol. For a lonely people, the Emperor is a definite place. They can turn toward him and say: 'See, there He is. He makes us one.' Perhaps religion serves the same purpose, m'Lord.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Life
Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.
From Dune
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Topic: Death
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
From Children of Dune
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Topic: Education
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said.
“Nothing about religion is simple.
From Dune
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Topic: Religion
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.
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Philosophical
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity....The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don’t spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
From Chapterhouse: Dune
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Topic: Education
They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
From Dune Messiah
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Topic: Religion
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
From Dune
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Topic: Motivational
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
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Topic: Education
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
From Dune
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Topic: Inspirational, Philosophical
My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!
From God Emperor of Dune
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Topic: Religion
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