Still wanted those genetic characteristics carried by the Atreides.
To the east, the night grew a faggot of luminous grey, then seashell opalescence that dimmed the stars. There came the long, bell-tolling movement of dawn striking across a broken horizon.
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. — The Amtal Rule
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
The price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life -we went soft, we lost our edge.
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices.
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM THE WISDOM...
The Duke said: Paul, I’m doing a hateful thing, but I must. He stood beside the portable poison snooper that had been brought into the conference room for their breakfast. The thing’s sensor arms hung...
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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.
O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
Men looked at their gods and their rituals and saw that both were filled with that most terrible of all equations: fear over ambition.
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...
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent.
Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad’Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.