“Even if you could return, even if you could go back, it wouldn’t be the same. Why? Because you aren’t the same.”
Source: House of Leaves
“They’re accustomed to seeing the future, Paul thought. In this place and time they’re blind…even as I am. And he sampled the time-winds, sensing the turmoil, the storm nexus that now focused on this moment place. Even the faint gaps were closed now. Here was the unborn jihad, he knew. Here was the race consciousness that he had known once as his own terrible purpose. Here was reason enough for a Kwisatz Haderach or a Lisan al-Gaib or even the halting schemes of the Bene Gesserit. The race of humans had felt its own dormancy, sensed itself grown stale and knew now only the need to experience turmoil in which the genes would mingle and the strong new mixtures survive. All humans were alive as an unconscious single organism in this moment, experiencing a kind of sexual heat that could override any barrier.”
Source: DUNE
“The ultimate weapon is already prepared — it only needs to evolve.”
“I earn my living
teaching about the human condition, a composite
of violence, vengeance, and theft,
ingenuity, too, and forms of love unique
to men and women, the only species
that knows, consciously, what others of its kind
thought and did thousands of years before—
stories, myths, histories, philosophies,
all mirrors and constellations
showing humanity to itself,
none of which
will ensure our survival.”
Source: These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
“History does not remember kindness, but men do.”
Source: The Sword and the Hearth
“Civility is not what we do because we agree with one another. It is what we do because we belong to one another.”
Source: Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It
“Doctors, professors, and scientists were unknowingly assimilating incorrect or half-true information in order to regurgitate it to the populace. Because the populace held these professions in the highest regard, their disseminated information was believed as if it was coming out of the mouth of gods.”
Source: The Beasts of Success
“There are much cleverer ways to end someone than killing them.”
Source: Daisy Darker
“Racism is no longer tolerated as normal, Islamophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Homophobia is no longer tolerated as normal, Chauvinism is no longer tolerated as normal, Colonialism is no longer tolerated as normal - believe you me, this is the most human humanity have ever been in our 200,000 years long history.”
Source: The God Sonnets: Naskar Art of Theology
“Human life is a balancing act between endeavouring to improve ourselves and accepting who we were.”
Source: NEXUS: A Brief History of Infomation Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Volume.2) [Japanese Edition]