U usporedbi s beskonačnošću, sve što se naziva dugoročnim zapravo je kratkoročno.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.-Ancient Fremen Saying
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, The Preacher said. You aren’t thinking or really existing unless you’re willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence. Step...
To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
There’s always a prevailing mystique in any civilization, Leto said. It builds itself as a barrier against change, and that always leaves future generations unprepared for the universe’s treachery. Al...
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...
There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...
There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,' Kynes said. 'You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. It's aim is simple: to...
The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him. The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing. It suffused his body and he felt himself to be large, very large, not a ch...
The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.
The one-eyed view of our universe says The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead, tend to the wolf within your fences. T...
The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on.How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom, Leto said.
The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats. Good administrators make immediate choices. […] They usually can be made to work. A bad administrator, on the other...
That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand. Before
THE DUKE Leto Atreides leaned against a parapet of the landing control tower outside Arrakeen. The night’s first moon, an oblate silver coin, hung well above the southern horizon. Beneath it, the jagg...
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of s...
She asked me to tell her what it is to rule, Paul said. And I said that one commands. And she said I had some unlearning to do. She hit a mark there right enough, Hawat thought. He nodded for Paul to...
Remember your philosopher’s doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter.Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind a...