American - Writer | October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
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Something cannot emerge from nothing.
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
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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.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
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He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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