Moral decisions are always easy to recognize, Odrade said. They are where you abandon self-interest.
Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.
Emotions are the curse of logic.
Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.
A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.' And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, 'That path leads ever down into st...
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Peace encourages aggressions, thus igniting war.
You must teach me someday how you do that, he said, the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters. It must be a Bene Gesserit thing. It’s a female thing, she said.
We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the...
There’s no mystery about a human life. It’s not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?Muad'Dib
The past is no farther away than your pillow.