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Jiří Starý

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Jiří’s Quotes

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

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“There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.”
― Brian Herbert, House Harkonnen

tags: reality

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“Every hammer has the innate capacity to strike a nail. Every human mind has the innate capacity for greatness. But not every hammer is properly used, nor is every human mind.”
― Brian Herbert, Mentats of Dune

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“Aristotle raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such as the one that power can be understood without applying it, or that joy is totally removable from unhappiness, that peace can exist in the total absence of war, or that life can be understood without death.
—ERASMUS, Corrin Notes”
― Brian Herbert, The Butlerian Jihad

tags: body-mind, duality, philosophy

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