All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't you hear Muad'Dib? If certainty is knowing absolutely an a...
A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Čuvaj se staza koje sužavaju buduće mogućnosti. Takve staze odmiču od beskonačnosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.
It’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything...
You understand? One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
You cannot fix your gaze upon it!Senses cannot record it.No words describe it.-Alia
Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic partic...
Where is Alia?' she asked.'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She’s killing enemy wounded...
When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning.
When a wise man does not understand, he says: I do not understand. The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.
What matters most is the search itself. This is more important than the searchers. Consciousness must dream, it must have a dreaming ground—and, dreaming, must invoke ever new dreams.
What have we here—jinn or human?
We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.
To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.
This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the univer...