That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.
Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.
She used these moments as she used all such time now to gird herself for the coming necessities. Time pressed; a special calendar drove her. She had looked at a calendar before leaving Chapter House,...
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension...
Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
Only those who recognize the value of war and exercise it have any degree of self-determination.
Once more the drama begins.' — The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.
Never obliterate a man unthinkingly, the way an entire fief might do it through some . Always do it for an overriding purpose—and !
Neki događaji imaju kraj, ali nemaju početak; drugi započinju, ali ne završe. Sve to ovisi o točki na kojoj promatrač stoji.
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without ac...
More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.
It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.
It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.
It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win b...
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
It leads to self-fulfilling prophecy and justifications for all manner of obscenities, Leto said. This … rhetorical despotism, Lord? Yes! It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are p...
It is another kind of marriage—the marriage of privilege and duty. It is the aristocrat’s explanation and his excuse.
Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?
In the view of infinity, any defined long-term is short-term.