“If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.”
More from Frank Herbert on Philosophy
“Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate”
“It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
“Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.”
“Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.”
“I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.”
“What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
“And the question of Wester religion,” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?”
“The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Buddha
13 quotes“Doubt everything. Find your own light.”