Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.- Frank Herbert
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.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
