Philip
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“People will try to understand me and to frame me in their words. They will seek truth. But the truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Many in life esteem themselves great men
who then will wallow here like pigs in mud,
leaving behind them their repulsive fame.”
― Inferno
who then will wallow here like pigs in mud,
leaving behind them their repulsive fame.”
― Inferno
“Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“And, indeed, our intellectual as well as our ethical education is corrupt. It is permeated by the admiration of brilliance, of the way things are said, which takes the place of a critical appreciation of the things that are said (and the things that are done). It is permeated by this romantic idea of the splendour of the State of History on which we are actors. We are educated to act with an eye to the gallery.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. II
― The Open Society and Its Enemies Vol. II
“A perspective is by nature limited. It offers us one single vision of a landscape. Only when complementary views of the same reality combine are we capable of achieving fuller access to the knowledge of things.”
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