There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...
There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.
The natural human´s an animal without a logic. Your projection of logic onto all affairs is unnatural.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. —
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...
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.
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...
Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Law is the ultimate science.
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 didn't want to be different.I wanted to be able to laughBut I'm sister to an Emperor who's worshiped as a god. People fear me. I never wanted to be feared.I don't want to be part of history, I just...
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.