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More fool he to let himself become an addict to anything, even to living.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken (Bene Gesserit axiom).

Ignorance has its advantages. A universe of surprises is what I pray for!

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject." The

Fear is the mind-killer. Slowly

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

That which makes a man superhuman is terrifying.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

As with all priests, you learned early to call the truth heresy.

Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said.
"Nothing about religion is simple.

Each man is a little war.

you can't buy security

At the age of fifteen, he had already learned silence.

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken.

But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

is the ultimate science,

Truth suffers from too much analysis.
-Ancient Fremen Saying

The sandy juice of his fears could not be avoided.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable - slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

I never could bring myself to trust a traitor," the Baron said. "Not even a traitor I created.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.

Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.

Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.

The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power - spice.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

Pale northern complexion that turned to burn at the drop of a sunbeam.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Ambitions tend to Remain undisturbed by Realities.

Facing your fears robs them of their power

Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

Do not make the error of considering my son a child, the Duke said. And he smiled.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on."
"How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said.

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory.

Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed

Law is the ultimate science.

There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

Once more the drama begins.' - The Emperor Paul Muad'dib on his ascension to the Lion Throne.

Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.

But the tripod upon which Eternity swings is composed of flesh and thought and emotion.

It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can, Edric said.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
decisions.

Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. - Bene Gesserit Coda

It doesn't follow that the riots mean permanent hostility toward him.

we are so money-rich and so life-poor.

What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.

Too Much Knowledge never makes for Simple Decisions.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance

Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Stilgar put a hand on Idaho's shoulder. All men are interlopers, old friend.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

A duke's son MUST know about poisons. It's the way of our times.

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

Can you take him, Gurney?" "M'Lord jests!

How easy it was to mistake clear reasoning for correct reasoning!