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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...more

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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

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There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

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Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testi...more

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the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

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

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Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–ter...more

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Education is no substitute for intelligence.

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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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I am not the river I am the net.

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To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even you...more

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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as...more

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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 ...more

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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.

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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of t...more