The universe does not work by our rules
The pursuit of unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans.
The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.
The day the flesh shapes and the flesh the day shapes.
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
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
Our civilization appears to’ve fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up.
One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life, Paul said, is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It’s a loss, an awakening to th...
Often I must Speak otherwise than I Think. This is Called Diplomacy.
Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within. Sister
Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the d...
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...
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.
I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. All of them distilled into each wound we caught. Those wounds are all painful places where we fought. Battles never left behind, ones we never sought.
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...
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things... she held up four big-knuckled fingers. ...the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and th...
Failure to make a decision was in itself a decision—he