Quotes about Balance

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

A world is supported by four things... 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...without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures.

Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.

You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.

The historical system of mutual pillage and extortion stops here on Arrakis," his father said. "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.

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.

He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.

Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.