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...

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It’s be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait,...

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who...

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

A world is supported by four things….the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayer of righteous and the valour of the brave. But all this are nothing…without a ruler who knows...

I never thought it would be easy to serve God,” she said. “I just didn’t think it would be this hard.

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

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.