Tell her nothing is impossible. Tell her that love is what separates humans from other living creatures, not hatred. Not violence—
Each of us influences the actions of the people we know. —XAVIER HARKONNEN,
Dhartha’s deep blue eyes flashed. This is not about pride, Aurelius Venport. This is only about killing a pest of the desert.
You will have to rebuild an entire city. Xavier looked at Rhengalid with little sympathy. But you can do that only because you are alive and free.
Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.
We are indeed miserable, my friends, but we don’t have to be dismal about it.
The first step in innovation is to know that a thing can be created. After that, the rest is a matter of detail.
Not all accidents are what they seem. Victims do no even know why they have been chosen.
Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
I have seen into the heart of the universe.
Any school for free citizens must begin by teaching distrust, not trust. It must teach questioning, not acceptance of stock answers.
Your outrageous and reckless chaos is the only reason you are able to beat me in any strategy game, Seurat said. It certainly has nothing to do with your innate skills.
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. —Bene Gesserit Precept I
The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past. We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay jus...
She suspected that Iblis Ginjo was a dangerous, duplicitous man, but saw no one more qualified to take the Jihad where it needed to go. For his own reasons, he did, after all, espouse the same cause a...
Seurat’s flowmetal face gleamed in the lights from his update ship’s cockpit. Then I regret having been such an excellent teacher.
If we give up our humanity to fight the machines, Zufa, then Omnius has already won!
Human imagination is a powerful thing. It can be a sanctuary from difficult times, a catalyst to change society, or the impetus to create marvelous works of art. On the other hand, an overabundance of...
But this … creature was none of those things. He was barely distinguishable from an animal. The young man—singlehandedly—seemed intent on increasing the universe’s entropy by an order of magnitude.
A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive. — FRANK HERBERT, unpublished notes