Top Highlights

• “A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation,”
• that woman has many plots—plots within plots. Give in to one of her ambitions and you could advance another of them.”
• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
• “Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
• Truth suffers from too much analysis.