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.
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...
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...
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...
There are many kinds of ignorance, Streggi. The basest is to follow your own desires without examining them. Sometimes, we do it unconsciously. Hone your sensitivity. Be aware of what you do unconscio...
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 real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative:
The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.
Taraza cleared her throat. No need. Lucilla is one of our finest Imprinters. Each of you, of course, received the identical liberal conditioning to prepare you for this. There was something almost ins...
Shishakli presented two thin, whiplike shafts as Paul approached. The shafts were about a meter and a half long with glistening plasteel hoods at one end, roughened at the other end for a firm grip. P...
Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
People aren’t concerned with love; it’s too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos. We can’t have that, can we? And how do you make despotism lovable?
Paul shrugged. Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn’t speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn’t...
Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. —Darwi Odrade
It's a beautiful morning, Sire, the guard saidYes, it is.The Duke nodded, thinking: Perhaps this planet could grow on one. Perhaps it could ba a good home for my son.Then he saw the human figures movi...
I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil...