“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion,” (Location 164)
They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” (Location 313)
Truth suffers from too much analysis. —Ancient Fremen Saying (Location 1190)
Here lies a toppled god- His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one. —Tleilaxu Epigram (Location 1714)
The Reverend Mothers encapsulated in Alia’s memories stirred restlessly, provoking adab flashes of thought: “Peace, Little One! You are what you are. There are compensations.” (Location 1745)
accused. “The wise man molds himself—the fool lives only to die.” (Location 1878)
“I told him that to endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.” (Location 1894)
“What is justice? Two forces collide. Each may have the right in his own sphere. (Location 1907)
Knowing it to be inevitable, why not choose an aristocrat’s death, ending life on a secret flourish, squandering any years that might have been? To die before coming to the end of willpower, was that not an aristocrat’s choice? (Location 1965)
Ground once trampled by battles rang now to the rushing clamor of business. (Location 1981)
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individuals. (Location 2587)
“When you stumble,” he said, “you may regain your balance by jumping beyond the thing that tripped you.” (Location 3512)
“He told me the future no longer needed his physical presence,” Tandis had reported. “When he left me, he called back. ’Now I am free’ were his words.” (Location 4062)
He began to realize that there might be a certain fastidious courtesy in dying without a trace—no remains, nothing, and an entire planet for a tomb. (Location 4079)
