My Sihaya,’ he said as he held her, ‘I have loved you for five thousand years.
A winner has more skills than a loser, Vor said, no matter how you define the competition.
Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.
The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers, her mother had once told her. But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.
In 'Sidney's Comet,' thanks to all the consumerism, all the garbage had to be put in deep space, even though we're not supposed to litter the cosmos - that was an environmental message. Although it wa...
Consciousness and logic are not reliable standards. —COGITORS, Fundamental Postulate
All life is a series of seemingly insignificant tasks and decisions, culminating in the definition of an individual and her purpose in life.
We must face our responsibilities regardless of whether we get what we want.
Her face looked like a fruit from which all the juice had been sucked.
The tough philosophy of Ginaz taught that there were no accidents, no excuses for failure. Every event was the result of a sequence of actions. Intentions were irrelevant to actual outcomes.
Vor laughed, proud of his place here. He quoted what he’d been taught all his life. I am the pinnacle of humanity—a trustee of Omnius, the son of General Agamemnon.
The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The willingness to learn is a choice.
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
Arrakis is ours because we have taken it, Selim announced. We have learned to survive under the harshest circumstances, without depending upon the benevolence of strangers or trade with offworld intru...
Raped reason. He implanted in the dominant schools of philosophy the attractive belief that there can be discrete separation between mind and body. This led quite naturally to corollary delusions such...
The robot responded with surprising sarcasm. I am aware of the various bodily orifices humans possess. Therefore, I invite you to take a power tool and insert it where the—
Poritrin nobles professed to follow gentle, bucolic Navachristianity, but their core beliefs did not extend to their daily lives. They had their festivals, and embraced religious trappings, but the Po...
The only guarantee in life is death, and the only guarantee in death is its shocking unpredictability.
Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements wh...
In adverse circumstances, every creature becomes something else, evolving or devolving. What makes us human is that we know what we once were, and, let us hope, we remember how to change back.