The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —
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...
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. —The Coda
Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.
Prophets have a way of dying by violence.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective.
Pride overcame Paul's fear. You dare suggest a duke's son is an animal? he demanded.Let us say I suggest you may be human, she said. Steady! I warn you not to try jerking away. I am old, but my hand c...
Once . . . long ago, he’d thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way yo...
O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers.
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when th...
My brother comes now, Alia said. Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.
Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocr...
Kad sam se školovao za mentata...Bilo je vrlo teško, Alija, naučiti kako rabiti vlastiti um. Prvo naučiš dopuštati umu samostalno djelovanje. To je vrlo čudno. Ti možeš rabiti svoje mišiće, vježbati i...
In the wrong hands, Leto said, monolithic centralized power is a dangerous and volatile instrument. - And your hands are the right ones?
Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said.
How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
His plan has good points and bad points...as any plan would at this stage. A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
Here lies a toppled god.His fall was not a small one.We did but build his pedestal,A narrow and a tall one.
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? —
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.