Quotes About Balance

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.

How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —Darwi Odrade

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after. The physical qualities of a planet are written into its economic and political record.

QUESTION: Who governs the governors? ANSWER: Entropy.

You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.

There's no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It's unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.

They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, diesen Welten nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion

off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers—and

We don't die easily. I should be dead now... I will be dead soon... but I can't stop being an ecologist.

The universe can be understood only by the wind.

Kad se pretjerano koristi, ?ak se i odanost na kraju istroši.

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.