I am not the river I am the net.
Here lies a toppled god.His fall was not a small one.We did but build his pedestal,A narrow and a tall one.
Grief is the price of victory,
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...
From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed the colony as the unit of natural...
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
Bir zamanlar, insanlar düşünme işini makinelere devretmiş, böylece özgürleşmeyi umut etmişlerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip başka insanların onları köleleştirmesine yol açtı sadece.
And he thought then about the Guild—the force that had specialized for so long that it had become a parasite, unable to exist independently of the life upon which it fed. They had never dared grasp th...
Among my father’s most important messages were that governments lie to protect themselves and they make incredibly stupid decisions. Years after the publication of Dune, Richard M. Nixon provided ampl...
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
You can't build politics on love, he said. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
You can say things which cannot be done. This is elementary. The trick is to keep attention focused on what is said and not on what can be done.
When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form o...
We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols, he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren’t supposed to stir up curiosity about G...
We pray to a moon: she is round— Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.
Umman Kudu: scissors-line of jaw muscles, chin like a boot toe - a man to be trusted because the captain's vices were known.
They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encounter...
They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
There’s a Bene Gesserit saying, she said. You have sayings for everything! he protested. You’ll like this one, she said. It goes: ‘Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then y...