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.
Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.
We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.
Paul took a place in the line behind Chani. He had put down the black feeling at being caught by the girl. In his mind now was the memory called up by his mother’s barked reminder: “My son’s been tested with the gom jabbar!” He found that his hand tingled with remembered pain.
First, as to Time: there is no difference between ten thousand years and one year; no difference between one hundred thousand years and a heartbeat. No difference. That is the first fact about Time. And the second fact: the entire universe with all of its Time is within me.
The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.