“Speak the Truth. That is always much easier and is often the most powerful argument.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” – Frank Herbert, Dune
Italo Calvino on the Inferno and Suffering
“The inferno of the living is not something that will be; if there is one, it is what is already here, the inferno where we live every day, that we form by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for many: accept the inferno and become such a part of it that you can no longer see it. The second is risky and demands constant vigilance and apprehension: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space.”
Italo Calvino
“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.” – Mary Schmich
“An archer, the moment he thinks he’s experienced, is lost; every lion we encounter in our brief life is different from every other lion; woe to us if we stop to make comparisons, to deduce our movements from norms and premises.”
Italo Calvino, t zero
“Vices surround and assail men from every side, and do not allow them to rise again and lift their eyes to discern the truth, but keep them overwhelmed and rooted in their desires.”
Seneca
“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.”
Scott Fitzgerald
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
Galileo Galilei
“You have no basis for right thinking if you do not know what you are”
Krishnamurti, on relationship