“To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.”
― Children of Dune
― Children of Dune
“Paul Watzlavik, among others, has performed classic experiments in which totally sane people will begin to behave with all the irrationality of hospitalized paranoids or schizophrenics — just because they have been lied to in a calculated and systematic way. This sort of “disinformation” matrix is so typical of many aspects of our society (e.g., advertising and organized religion, as well as government) that some psychiatrists, such as R.D. Laing, claim it is the principal cause of psychotic breakdowns. When the politics of lying becomes normal, paranoia and alienation become the “normality” of the day.”
― Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
― Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
“If you must act, then act to win but always prefer to live in peace.”
― The Tao of Star Wars
― The Tao of Star Wars
“You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards, it takes us to a place where we ache to go again.”
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