This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This...
This is the age of the shrug. He knows I've heard all of the stories about him and he doesn't care. Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack.
They’d never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.
They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in the universe then seasoned in battles where only the superior fe...
There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fence. Each day a wild ass of the desert passed outside the fenc...
The pitfall of Bene Gesserit training, she reminded herself, lay in the powers granted: such powers predisposed one to vanity and pride. But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe powe...
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at...
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We
Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They’re a kind of job insurance.
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
Now, motivational patterns are going to be similar among all espionage agents. That is to say: there will be certain types of motivation that are similar despite differing schools or opposed aims. You...
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero
No conocerás el miedo. El miedo mata la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado...
My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands…
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
Madness in method, that is genius.
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.