Philip

“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”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune

“If you overesteem great men,
people become powerless.
If you overvalue possessions,
people begin to steal”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden by John Steinbeck: A Timeless Tale of Family, Free Will, and the Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil

“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.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune