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  • #1
    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #2
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #3
    Frank Herbert
    “I 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 me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune

  • #5
    Frank Herbert
    “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.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
    Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
    Frank Herbert

  • #8
    Isaac Asimov
    “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #9
    Isaac Asimov
    “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #10
    Isaac Asimov
    “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
    Isaac Asimov, Foundation

  • #11
    Isaac Asimov
    “The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eureka!" (I found it!) but 'That's funny...”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #12
    Isaac Asimov
    “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #13
    Isaac Asimov
    “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'
    Isaac Asimov

  • #14
    Isaac Asimov
    “Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #15
    Isaac Asimov
    “Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
    Isaac Asimov

  • #16
    Isaac Asimov
    “It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”
    Isaac Asimov, I, Robot

  • #17
    Mikhail Lermontov
    “If only people thought a little more about it, they would see that life is not worrying about so much.”
    Mikhail Lermontov

  • #18
    Leo Tolstoy
    “If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #19
    Salvador Dalí
    “Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.”
    Salvador Dali

  • #20
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • #21
    Chuck Palahniuk
    “You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.”
    Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

  • #22
    Leo Tolstoy
    “He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #23
    Leo Tolstoy
    “It's hard to love a woman and do anything.”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

  • #24
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #25
    Leo Tolstoy
    “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #26
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Music is the shorthand of emotion”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #27
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Boredom: the desire for desires.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenin

  • #29
    Leo Tolstoy
    “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.”
    Leo Tolstoy

  • #30
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Is it really possible to tell someone else what one feels?”
    Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina



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