And that day dawned when Arrakis lay at the hub of the universe with the wheel poised to spin.
Is your religion real when it costs you nothing and carries no risk? Is your religion real when you fatten upon it? Is your religion real when you commit atrocities in its name?
Forgive you?” Leto’s voice was full of sweet reason. “Of course I forgive you. That is your God’s function. Your crime is forgiven. However, your stupidity requires a response.
Listening carefully to the teacher, one acquires an education.
Memories rolled in his mind like the toothless mutterings of old women.
The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
Paul sat down where Hawat had been, straightened the papers. One more day here, he thought. He looked around the room. We’re leaving. The idea of departure was suddenly more real to him than it had ever been before. He recalled another thing the old woman had said about a world being the sum of many things – the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns – the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now. And he wondered: What is the now?
But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.
He mastered the inner world while holding the outer in contempt, and this led to catastrophe.
They learned early that sharing secret or private names was an ancient device for ensnaring a person in affections.
The problem with leadership is that leaders are human beings. And when they make mistakes, their mistakes are amplified by the numbers who follow without question.
The thing about computers – it’s like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.
Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides.” The.
If some crazy bastard tossed you into a lake when you couldn’t swim, and you learned to swim like that” – Bickel snapped his fingers – “and you found then you could just keep on going, wouldn’t you swim like hell to get away from the crazy bastard?
She didn’t like the fact that people of both sietch and graben referred to Muad’Dib as Him.
I have another kind of sight. I see another kind of terrain: the available paths. The.
One of the most dangerous things in the universe is an ignorant people with real grievances. That is nowhere near as dangerous, however, as an informed and intelligent society with grievances.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Can you take him, Gurney?” “M’Lord jests!
One doesn’t need telepathy to read your intentions.