Quotes
“You know, every time you remember something, your mind changes it just a little. Until your best and your worst memories are your biggest illusions” – Joe Miller, Expanse
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose” – Reverend Mother, Dune
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” – Paul, Dune
“Education is an admirable thing but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught” Oscar Wilde
“We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?” – Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow