Ah, Hah! But you see, Baron, I know as a Mentat when you will send the executioner. You will hold back just so long as I am useful. To move sooner would be wasteful and I'm yet of much use. I know wha...
She rides the sandworm of space!She guides through all stormsInto the land of gentle winds.Though we sleep by the snake's den,She guards our dreaming sould.Shunning the desert heat,She hides us in a c...
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in wh...
I realize that humans cannot bear very much reality. Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your heads into the stanchions and munch contentedly until y...
Desperate people are the most dangerous.
You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
We will not run, Paul said. We'll move with dignity. We'll do what must be done.
They compose poems to their knives.
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.
Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.
What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization co...
The hunter does not seek dead game.
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
He 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 is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can l...