
“I write of melancholy, by being busy to avoid melancholy. There is no greater cause of melancholy than idleness, "no better cure than business,”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy

“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune

“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
― Chapterhouse: Dune
― Chapterhouse: Dune
“a worse plague cannot happen to a man, than to be so troubled in his mind;”
― The Anatomy of Melancholy
― The Anatomy of Melancholy

“The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realise about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. A system has order, flowing from point to point. If something dams that flow, order collapses. The untrained might miss that collapse until it was too late. That's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.”
― Dune
― Dune
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