It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?
motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existenc...
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular s...
You can’t stop a mental epidemic. It leaps from person to person across parsecs. It’s overwhelmingly contagious. It strikes at the unprotected side, in the place where we lodge the fragments of other...
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power, Tuek said. You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. —
The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them?
Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.
Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error, Leto explained. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.