A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with ever...
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.
A leader tries to perpetuate the conditions which demand his leadership. Thus, the leader requires the outsider.
But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll wr...
Никога не подценявайте силата на самозаблуждението да филтрира това, което очите виждат и ушите чуват.Случаят Абнет, Секретни досиета на БюСаб
Всяко Бюро е жив организъм, а бюрократът е една от неговите клетки. Тази аналогия ни помага да разберем кои са по-важните клетки, кои са най-застрашени, кои най-лесно заменими и колко е лесно да бъдеш...
Pale northern complexion that turned to burn at the drop of a sunbeam.
Hold at your neck the gom jabbar, she said. The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It’s a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don’t pull away or you’ll feel that poison.
You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. —
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
We are the people of Misr, the old woman rasped. Since our Sunni ancestors fled from Nilotic al-Ourouba, we have known flight and death. The young go on that our people shall not die.
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study are insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. People enter a permanent state of alertness to ward off attacks. You see the absolute rule of the autoc...
Time can also be a place, Moneo, Leto said. Everything depends upon where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him, yet he accepted the treachery. Can you say he did this out of a sense o...
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.
The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn’t they?
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.