“The beginning is a time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”
“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful. “
“fear is the mind-killer.”
“Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? “
“There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.”
“You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, ______, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny. “
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. “
“Mood? What has mood to do with it? “
“You fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood!”
Mood’s a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It’s not for fighting. “
“If wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.”
“Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert. “
“What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? “
“A million deaths were not enough for ________!”
“_________ knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. “
“Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”
“I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds.”
“There is probably no more terrible instance of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man — with human flesh .”
“He shall know your ways as if born to them. “
“Greatness is a transitory experience. “
“It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. “
“The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. “
“Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
“There is no escape — we pay for the violence of our ancestors. “
“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
“ [ put a planet name here] teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: "Now it’s complete because it’s ended here.”
“My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”
“_________ could indeed see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power.”
“He tells us ‘The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.’ And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning ‘That path leads ever down into stagnation.’ “
“What do you despise? By this you are truly known. “
“There existed no need on [ put a planet name here ] to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind — we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life — we went soft, we lost our edge. “
“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fools wrath is heavier than them both.”
“Cool your sorrow — we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart — water, green grass, and the beauty of woman. “
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.”
“Prophecy and prescience — How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered questions? “
“Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? “
“To save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise. “
“Anger is one thing, violence another. “
“It’s easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire. “
“To accept a little death is worse than death itself. “
“You cannot back into the future. “
“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. “
“The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever. “
“The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it. “
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you! “
“I have seen us giving love to one another in a time of quiet between storms.”
“You may have eternity. I only have now.”
“it was mostly sweet. But you were sweetest of all.”
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