A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us “The vision of time is broad, but when you pass...

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted...

Fear is the mind-killer.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny,” Paul said. “They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and...

Rostit ori nerostit, un g nd e o realitate și are putere.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

Schools were started to train human talents… The Guild… emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs… politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity...

Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness… focusing the consciousness… aortal dilation… avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness… to be conscious by choice… blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions…...

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

Apropierea unui lucru dorit înclină la prea multă îngăduință.

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles...

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...

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?

Police are inevitably corrupted. … Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element...

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

I am not the river I am the net.

No construirás una máquina a semejanza de la mente del hombre.-Biblia católica naranja-

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears...

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus...

Dacă te bizui numai pe ochi, celelalte simțuri îți slăbesc.

They are not mad. They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword...

Only fools prefer the past!

Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

When a Truthsayer’s gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory – in her body’s memory. We look down so many avenues of the past… but only feminine avenues… Yet there’s...

My father rules an entire planet.””He’s losing it.

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These...

I have said: “Blow out the lamp! Day is here!” And you keep saying: “Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe–living time.

The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when...

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

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.

Frica este ucigașul minții.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, ‘I am not the kind of person I want to be.’ It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen” — which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end....

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see....

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even...

You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

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

You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it,” she said.”And it’s the survivors who maintain the most light and poignant hold upon the beauties of living. Women know this more often than...