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.
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.
People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly.
One should never presume one is the sole object of a hunt,
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable...
If I always behave with propriety, no matter what it costs me to suppress my own desires, then that is the measure of me. Such is the essence of self-control.
Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
I never could bring myself to trust a traitor, the Baron said. Not even a traitor I created.
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?
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.
Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually mu...
Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.
Arrakis makes us moral and ethical.
All rebels are closet aristocrats.
A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday lift - a false brilliance composed of the hope that old dreams would be fulfille...
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
Какво има между едно и осем, освен две, три, четири, пет, шест и седем?— Безкрайност — отвърна Кейлбанът. — Отворена система. Нищо съдържа всичко. Всичко съдържа нищо.