"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."

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

Frank Herbert

#Freedom Quotes #Discipline Quotes #History Quotes

“The dimension that counts for the creative person is the space he creates within himself. This inner space is closer to the infinite than the other, and it is the privilege of the balanced mind... and the search for an equilibrium is essential - to be as aware of inner space as he is of outer space.”
“Columbia University, where I went to study in 1993, insisted its undergraduates learn a foreign language, so I discovered French.”
“There is nothing more difficult to outgrow than anxieties that have become useful to us, whether as explanations for a life that never quite finds its true force or direction, or as fuel for ambition, or as a kind of reflexive secular religion that, paradoxically, unites us with others in a shared sense of complete isolation: you feel at home in the world only by never feeling at home in the world.”
“Human truth is always soiled with falsehood.”
“Why should I bring happiness to those I loathe by obliterating myself, when I can make them miserable just by existing?”

Source : Jessica Zafra (1995). “Twisted”, Anvil Books
“Some men get the world, some men get ex-hookers and a trip to Arizona. You're in with the former, but my God I don't envy the blood on your conscience.”

Source : FaceBook post by James Ellroy from Jan 20, 2015
“The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people may be, they are not so significant as thousands of other people who have never been mentioned. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.”
“the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind. No wise man ever acquired his wisdom in any mode but this; nor is it in the nature of human intellect to become wise in any other manner.”

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