My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
Frank HerbertRead
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Interpretation
Discontent can lead to personal growth and resilience.
Frank Herbert suggests that experiencing hardship and oppression is crucial for developing one's inner strength and resilience. Just as physical muscles grow stronger through resistance, our psyche benefits from facing challenging situations, leading to personal development and a deeper understanding of life.
In practice
Using this quote in a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.
I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people.
If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
There is no polite way to say that business is destroying the world.
You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks.
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