If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we de...
Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.
Bless the Maker and His water.Bless the coming and going of Him.
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies....
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called spannungsbogen -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. B...
Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny, Paul said. They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush t...
Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic...
But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.