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Owned by Insignis - Created on 01/17/2008 - Never edited 05/21/06 :: Thing :: Dune :: Classic sci-fi novel by Frank Herbert, 196507/24/05 :: Person :: Frank Herbert07/24/05 :: Folder :: Understanding & Comprehension06/22/05 :: Folder :: Existence 11/26/03 :: Folder :: Truth 01/17/08 :: Quote :: Gurney HalleckI'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me--all bearing for someone else to pick.  02/26/08 :: Quote :: Dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plain, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess IrulanDo 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 trifles,
Victim of your folly.  07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamYou've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: Paul AtreidesA process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. (The First Law of Mentat)  07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen Mohiam'That which submits rules.' ... The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows -- a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose. 06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank Herberthe fell into the floating awareness . . . focusing the consciousness . . . aortal dilation . . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness . . . to be conscious by choice . . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions . . . one does not obtain food-safety-freedom by instinct alone . . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its vi [...]  06/22/05 :: Quote :: Dune, by Frank HerbertI must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over and through me. And when it has gone I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.  07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamA world is supported by four things ... the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing ... without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition! 06/28/05 :: Article :: Skepticism ::  07/24/05 :: Quote :: Gaius Helen MohiamOnce, men turned thinking over to machines in the hopes that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.  12/29/07 :: Quote :: British Ministry of InformationWhat is truth? We must adopt a pragmatic definition: it is what is believed
to be the truth. A lie that is put across therefore becomes the truth and
may, therefore, be justified. The difficulty is to keep up lying... it is
simpler to tell the truth and if a sufficient emergency arises, to tell one,
big thumping lie that will then be believed. 07/24/05 :: Quote :: River TamShe understands. She doesn't comprehend. |
