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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messia...more

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There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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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 t...more

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When a Truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. We look down so many avenues of the past... but...more

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No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

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We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.