....the most persistent principles of the universe [are] accident and error. |
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation |
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. |
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it |
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife--chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's compete because it's ended here.' |
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. . . . the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive. |
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. |
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. |
Fear is the mind killer |
Good government 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 of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. |
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. |
Here lies a fallen god His fall was not a small one, We did but build his pedestal An narrow and a tall one |
Hey, that turned out not to be such a good idea. I'd better not do that anymore. |
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. |
Humans are almost always lonely. |