The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.
TO THE LADY JESSICA-May this place give you as much pleasure as it has given me. Please permit the room to convey a lesson we learned from the same teachers: the proximity of a desirable thing tempts...
Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water’s passage. The water flowed off those walls without bi...
Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.
Sietch: a meeting place in time of danger.
Shield! the old woman snapped. You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.
People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize huma...
Peace demands solutions, but we never reach living solutions; we only work toward them. A fixed solution is, by definition, a dead solution. The trouble with peace is that it tends to punish mistakes...
Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them. ‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the liken...
Nie wolno się bać.Strach zabija duszę.Strach to mała śmierć, a wielkie unicestwienie.Stawię mu czoło.Niechaj przejdzie po mnie i przeze mnie.
My mind controls my reality.
Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. And it is the extremes of climate which set the pattern. Lonely, finite humans may observe cli...
Law is the ultimate science.
Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. Morality and legal niceties have little to do with it when the real question is: Who has the clout? —Bene
Kad se pretjerano koristi, čak se i odanost na kraju istroši.
It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule, Idaho said. Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for f...
It is said of Muad’Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock....
It is said in the desert that possession of water in great amount can inflict a man with fatal carelessness.
Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty? Jessica