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Book: Destination Void
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground-and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
The omnipresent enemy was the -that total absence of the things to support life that emptiness called space. It was evil and they feared it-constantly. A rod and staff might comfort in the presence of space, but what you dreamed about was washed air and a womblike enclosed cell where you could divest yourself of the damnable suit. This was the true source of comfort no matter if it came from the Devil himself.
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn't swim, and you learned to swim like that"-Bickel snapped his fingers-"and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn't you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
The thing about computers-it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
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?
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
Is consciousness merely a special form of hallucination?
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought-the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
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Frank Herbert _ Destination Void
The universe does not work by our rules
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