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the Rabbi. Her Proctors had called this “the innocence that goes naturally with inexperience, a condition often confused with ignorance.”
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a debt is a debt. Honor is honor. Truth is truth.
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
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All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted. —MISSIONARIA PROTECTIVA, TEXT QIV (DECTO)
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The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
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“Your mind is not a computer; it is a response-tool keyed to whatever your senses display.”
“Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.”
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant. —MENTAT TEXT TWO (DICTO)
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Silence is often the best thing to say,
“Trying to avoid complications often creates them.”
“I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.”
She flaunted a reverse vanity
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There is no reality. Only our own order imposed on everything.
But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to
‘Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.’” “Wrong, Dama. Something more subtle but far more pervasive: Power attracts the corruptible.”
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People don’t vote. Instinct tells them it’s useless.” “Democracy is a stupid idea anyway!” “We agree. It’s demagogue-prone. That’s a disease to which electoral systems are vulnerable. Yet demagogues are easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervor and god-fearing sincerity.”
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
Souvenirs of memory must be only that. Things to be taken up and fondled occasionally for evocation of past joys. No joy can be permanent. All is transient. “This, too, shall pass away” applies to all of our living universe.
“As long as I have the capacity, I’m delighted to pay.” “Take what you want and pay for it?”
“Beware jargon. It usually hides ignorance and carries little knowledge.”
Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.
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Beware when Civil Service and Military join hands!
Assembly showed you to one another. Here we are together. Our kind.
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“Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.”
