“They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“People, I thought, wanted security. They couldn’t bear the idea of death being a big black nothing, couldn’t bear the thought of their loved ones not existing, and couldn’t even imagine themselves not existing. I finally decided that people believed in an afterlife because they couldn’t bear not to.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.”
― Dune
― Dune
“PERHAPS THE GREATEST FACULTY our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
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