I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentme...
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself, Paul said. I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say Look! I have no hands! But the pe...
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 do we approach the study of Muad’Dib’s father? A man of surpassing warmth and surprising coldness was the Duke Leto Atreides. Yet, many facts open the way to this Duke: his abiding love for his Be...
He’s awake and listening to us, said the old woman. Sly little rascal. She chuckled. But royalty has need of slyness. And if he’s really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….
Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh
Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving universe vanishes. But it moves of itself when you do not. It ev...
And the question of Wester religion, Flattery said, is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
All around the Lady Jessica—piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces—stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases—some partly unpacked.
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
There's no reassuring ceiling over you, Moneo. Only an open sky full of changes. Welcome it. Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change. Does that tell you nothing?
The joy of living, its beauty is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you,
The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure...
Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injur...
Prophecy and prescience—How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered question? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the wave form (as Muad’Dib referred to his vision-image) and...
Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We’re leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ev...
Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even...