History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
A storm is coming; our storm. Emperor – we come for you!
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
A man’s flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she’ll live as less than a concubine – never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she’s bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine – history will call us wives.
To know a thing well, know it’s limits; Only when pushed beyond it’s tolerance will it’s true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule.
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
I cry for those not yet dead.
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. – Muad’Dib.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
What does a mirror look at?