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...
Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.
Where is the weapon with which I enforce your bondage? You give it to me every time you open your mouth.
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...
Truth suffers from too much analysis.-Ancient Fremen Saying
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
To Suspect your Own Mortality is to Know the Beginning of Terror; To Learn Irrefutably that you are mortal is to Know the End of Terror.
This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and gray cliffs and crimson shadows, laments and rivers of martyrs - what had...
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
The waters which we spread upon the desert have become blood. Blood upon our land! Behold our desert which could rejoice and blossom; it has lured the stranger and seduced him in our midst. They come...
The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.
The pursuit of unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans.
The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
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...
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something
Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within. Sister