The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. B...
I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what t...
Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the...
What’s a gom jabbar?
Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bri...
We have eternity, beloved.You may have eternity. I have only now.But this is eternity.
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial orga...
Time could be made to serve the mind.
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
You can’t buy security
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. —...
Maud’Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet cannot see without light. If you are on the floor of a valley, you cannot se...
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
It’d be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
Moral decisions are always easy to recognize, Odrade said. They are where you abandon self-interest.
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