You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
We have eternity, beloved.You may have eternity. I have only now.But this is eternity.
We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.
Warfare leaves a residue of ‘eat drink and be merry’ that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown.
To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen.-The Amtal Rule
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture—it begins in the dignity with which we treat our dead.
It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there could be no stopping.
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he i...
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum. —...
For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say.The thing was written with salt, Irulan translated.
Better a dry morsel and quietness therewith than a house full of sacrifice and strife.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that’s required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
What’s a gom jabbar?
Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness... focusing the consciousness... aortal dilation... avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness... to be consciou...
Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.