Seeing all the chattering faces, Paul was suddenly repelled by them. They were cheap masks locked on festering thoughts—voices gabbling to drown out the loud silence in every breast.
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It’s true! Liberal governments always develop into aristocracies. The...
Religious institutions perpetuate a mortal master-servant relationship, Leto said. They create an arena which attracts prideful human power-seekers with all of their nearsighted prejudices!
Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.
Reason is valuable, he said, only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe. Her
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
Bir geceyi uyanık geçirmek, ömre bir gün eklemektir.
Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.
Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.
Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He riske...
Fortune passes everywhere.
I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?
Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of a knife? —
I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.
I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they...
And he thought then about the Guild—the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never dared grasp th...
The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on.How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.
What is the son but an extension of the father?
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —
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