It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?
But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Absolute prediction is completion . . . is death!
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.
Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.
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