My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
I need to stop getting into situations where all my options are potentially bad.
All that spring and summer, there were times when she felt as if she had no joints or muscles, no physical means with which to move about the world.
Oh, I'm not afraid of death! What have I got to live for after all? I suppose you believe it's very wrong to kill a person who has injured you-even if they've taken away everything you had in the world?
Another might have missed the tension, but she had trained him in the Bene Gesserit Way - in the minutiae of observation.
I understand that you want “normal” by what you define it, but normal is what you make it. You could spend a lifetime in the house you grew up in and never once feel normal.
Patience will be on our side.” “I once heard that patience is a vulture in wait to take out its prey when all seems safe.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
He was a consummate politician-- which is to say he was given to expedient speech and lacked even a vestigial spine.
On the 'Celestial Seasonings' green tea packet there is a short explanation of its benefits: 'Green tea is a natural source of antioxidants, which neutralize harmful molecules in the body known as free radicals. By taming free radicals, antioxidants ...
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
There was polite laughter in the courtroom. Bosch noticed that the attorneys -- prosecution and defense -- dutifully joined in, a couple of them overdoing it. It had been his experience that while in open court a judge could not possibly tell a joke ...
My father rules an entire planet." "He's losing it.
But insight doesn't necessarily produce self-control. Sometimes you just see your destructiveness more clearly.
People react predictably, especially when they don't have time to think.
Deep 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.
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
I figured anybody who talked about church as much as she did was using it a little like cocaine anyhow.
But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
