Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.
Desperate people are the most dangerous.
The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —
I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not...
They compose poems to their knives.
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into m...
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion, Scytale murmured.
What the eyes had seen could not be erased.
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
You have no position from which to negotiate. Certain things will be done. You will comply willingly, your compliance will be forced, or we will act without you.
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing wo...
The Fremen have a simple, practical religion, he said.Nothing about religion is simple.
Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The...
Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are irrefutable or if you can mesh in a way that the fanatics acce...
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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