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Knowing was a barrier that prevented learning

"There's unknown all around at every moment. That's where you seek knowledge."

"I mean to disturb you!" The Preacher shouted. "It is my intention! I come here to combat the fraud and illusion of your conventional, institutionalized religion. As with all such religions, your institution moves toward cowardice, it moves toward mediocrity, inertia, and self-satisfaction."

"Is Maud'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?"

"But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things."

"Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class-- whether that class be hereditary, royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy."

"When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place."

Note for self: Hyat might be the last piece on the board (for now) But already proving to be the most interesting development in an established character. The plot thickens

To know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. I require more freedom than that.