Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
Postoje stvari koje riječi ne mogu objasniti. Moraš ih doživjeti bez riječi.
People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
Paul sat silently in the darkness, a single stark thought dominating his awareness: My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She...
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.
My family sat in their pool courtyard, Harah said, in air bathed by the moisture that arose from the spray of a fountain. There was a tree of portyguls, round and deep in color, near at hand. There wa...
Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they...
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.
Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.
Jessica stopped beside him: ‘What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.’He spoke mechanically: ‘If only adults could relax like that.’ ‘Yes.’‘When do we lose it?’ He murmured…‘We do indeed lose s...
It was mostly sweet, he whispered, and you were the sweetest of all.
If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
How the mind gears itself for its environment, she thought. And she recalled a Bene Gesserit axiom: The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think o...
How tempting it is to raise high walls and keep out change. Rot here in our own self-satisfied comfort.
He found that he no longer could hate the Bene Gesserit or the Emperor or even the Harkonnens. They were all caught up in the need of their race to renew its scattered inheritance, to cross and mingle...
Grabežljivac poboljšava vrstu.
For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the mos...
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.