Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.” He glanced at the charts on the table. “And Arrakis is just another place.
It should be one of the tests,” the old woman said. “Humans are almost always lonely.
There’s no such thing as equal justice anywhere. It’s unsettling to a society when you try to achieve such a false balance.
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known.
Review, friends – troops long past review,” the Duke intoned. “All to fate a weight of pains and dollars. Their spirits wear our silver collars. Review, friends – troops long past review: Each a dot of time without pretense or guile. With them passes the lure of fortune. Review, friends – troops long past review. When our time ends on its rictus smile, we’ll pass the lure of fortune.
My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men’s lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgments, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.
The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.
That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.
Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
Fate was sometimes inscrutable.
They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. –.
When you take your stand along the maker’s path, you must remain utterly still. You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.
Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.
He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.
As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.
The struggle between life elements is the struggle for the free energy of a system.
You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade’s edge and its tip.
Who owns this river passage? This verdant valley? This peninsula? This planet? None of us.