Quotes About Balance

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

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it's never enough. You also must run.

We've a three-point civilization: the Imperial Household balanced against the Federated Great Houses of the Landsraad, and between them, the Guild with its damnable monopoly on interstellar transport. In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures. It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Life—all life—is in the service of life.

Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person. —BENE GESSERIT TEACHING

Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory.

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

A paz exige soluções, mas nunca alcançamos soluções vivas. Apenas trabalhamos para chegar a elas. Uma solução fixa, por definição, é uma solução morta. O problema com a paz é que ela tende a punir os erros em vez de recompensar a lucidez.

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. 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.

But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How

The sandtrout," he repeated, "was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet . . . and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.

La paz exige soluciones, pero nunca llegamos a alcanzar soluciones mientras vivimos; solo trabajamos para intentar alcanzarlas. Una solución fija es, por definición, una solución muerta. El problema con la paz es que tiende a castigar los errores en lugar de premiar los logros.

A time to keep and a time to cast away; a time for love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.

beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken." It was a Bene Gesserit axiom.

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. —DARWI ODRADE

A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

A time to get and a time to lose. A time to keep and a time to cast away. A time for love and a time to hate. A time of war and a time of peace.

Quando io sono più debole di te, ti chiedo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i tuoi princìpi. Quando sono più forte di te, io ti tolgo la libertà perché ciò è in accordo con i miei princìpi. Parole di un antico filosofo (attribuite da Harq al-Ada a un certo Louis Veuillot)

Subtlety and self-control were, after all

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.

There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed.

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. —THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD'DIB