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(1920-1986) '' See also: The DUNE Chronicles When a wise man does not understand, he says: “I do not understand.” The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. The Godmakers "Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security." Bene Gesserit Coda in Chapterhouse Dune Attributed "The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent." "He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing." "It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich...." "Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery." "Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker." "To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror." "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him." "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." "Something cannot emerge from nothing." "There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." "There is probably no more terrible instants of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh." "The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger." "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it is a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." "To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be." "Kindness is the beginning of cruelty." "Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
See also: The DUNE Chronicles When a wise man does not understand, he says: “I do not understand.” The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom. The Godmakers "Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all legal professions of history have based their job security." Bene Gesserit Coda in Chapterhouse Dune Attributed "The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent." "He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing." "It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich...." "Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery." "Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker." "To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror." "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him." "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." "Something cannot emerge from nothing." "There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors." "There is probably no more terrible instants of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh." "The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger." "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it is a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain." "To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be." "Kindness is the beginning of cruelty." "Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."