But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
You can’t buy security
You must learn to rule. It's something none of your ancestors learned.
You do not beg the sun for mercy.-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary
When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
The wise despot...maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe...
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
Humans are almost always lonely.
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.
Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
Fortune passes everywhere.
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan...
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...
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I wi...
Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.
We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.