Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All e...
Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.
Earth? Golden Age? Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?
Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. (Brian Herbert's Introduction)
Canterbury was gone from the memories of men, as was the planet which had known it.
Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a tempora...
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. Humans are not threading their way through a maze; they scan a vast horizon filled with unique opportunities.
And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life -we went soft, we lost our edge.
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.
A voice hissed: He sheds tears!It was taken around the ring Usal gives moisture to the dead!He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a...
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence.
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the l...
What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry, Paul intoned. This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a fighting man armed and shielded. Paul snapped the force button at his waist,...
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
We came from Caladan—a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind—we could see the actuality all around us. And the pr...
The thing about computers—it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.