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“Be not solitary, be not idle”
― Robert Burton

“Wine is strong, the king is strong, women are strong, but truth overcometh all things.”
― Robert Burton

“I light my candle from their torches.”
― Robert Burton

“If you have no dreams, you shall live within them”
― Robert Burton

“One religion is as true as another.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“a worse plague cannot happen to a man, than to be so troubled in his mind;”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“Compassion, empathy, and humility can only arise out of recognizing that our common desires are differently expressed.”
― Robert A. Burton, On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, "no better cure than business,”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, no greater cure than business.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“We see only what we know.   —Goethe”
― Robert Burton M.D., On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not

“Who hath desires must ever fearful be;
Who lives in fear cannot be counted free.”
― Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy

“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

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

“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune

“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Truth suffers from too much analysis.

-Ancient Fremen Saying”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert

“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune

“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune