We are generalists. You can’t draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.
The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.
Is evolution just another name for God?
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There’d be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II.
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.