A human captive had fought the machines! She had destroyed a robot with her own hands! Amazed, they called out her name.
‘I must not fear,’ she intoned, her eyes closed. ‘Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through...
We could be dreaming all the time, but we do not perceive those dreams while we are awake because consciousness (like the sun obscuring stars during the day) is much too brilliant to allow the unconsc...
So I have failed you? Not at all. Your human frailties are not your fault.
Savant, doesn’t it strike you as somewhat…hypocritical that we fight to keep humans free from the domination of machines, while at the same time some of our own League Worlds use slaves?
No matter the challenge, his people knew how to endure.
I'm a thinker. That is what I do, in great depth and detail, every waking moment of the day. I like to believe it's worthwhile. And yet, I can't help but recall something ... said to me once when I wa...
Even victories take their toll on a man.
Erasmus was like Serena in a sense: he frequently needed to prune and weed the human race in his own garden.
Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer. —LIET-KYNES,
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risks is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live. —Planetologist Pardot Kynes, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son L...
Absolute rules are for unthinking people. Sheep require fences—humans do not.
Environment where students could develop their mental skills through hours of uninterrupted meditation. Gilbertus had chosen this inhospitable area with a specific purpose in mind. He believed the dan...
Would it … would it be possible for me to speak with them? No, the secondary said. In his exalted position, Iblis Ginjo was unaccustomed to hearing such a response.
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, our entire being screams betrayal.
The tapestry of the universe is vast and complex, with infinite patterns. While threads of tragedy may form the primary weave, humanity with its undaunted optimism still manages to embroider small des...
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
Serena grew angry. How could that representative worry about petty price tags, when the ultimate cost was so much higher? We will all pay—in blood—if we do not do this. We must strengthen the League a...
It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.
It is easy to look backward and cast blame on others, but more difficult to gaze ahead and take responsibility for your own decisions and your own future. —GRIFFIN HARKONNEN, final dispatch from Arrak...