"How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing."

-- Mary Astell

#Garden Quotes #World Quotes #Fine Quotes

“Vous perdez votre temps! (You're wasting your time.)”
“I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: 'try being rich first'. See if that doesn't cover most of it. There's not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”
“The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life. Nevertheless, like the greater part of our misfortunes, even so serious a contingency brings its remedy and consolation with it, if the sufferer will but make the best, rather than the worst, of the accident which has befallen him.”
“Architects must have a razor-sharp sense of individuality.”
“I want to make a world more magical than my own. I don't care if it makes sense, I don't care if it's ridiculed or if, rather than a neat round planet that goes around forever, it ends with a cliff that falls off into nothing. I want to have my eyes wide open, and I want to see this room and at the same time, not this room.”
“Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger”
“The human brain must continue to frame the problems for the electronic machine to solve.”
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

Source : Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

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