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There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

the sleeper must awaken

All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.

I guess I'm not in the mood for it today," Paul said. "Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

How sure it is, Leto thought, that a weapon can lock a person into a predictable pattern of behavior.

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You've learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the universe your own creation.

I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise up out of the sea…and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.

It'd be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

I see the signs!" Jessica snapped. "My question was meant to remind you that you should not try to teach me those matters in which I instructed you." Paul

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

Ima trava okolo! I korenja okolo!" Jessica translated silently: "These are ashes! And these are roots!

The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment.

Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica

and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Sex for pleasure, the enemy of religion, eh?

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

The absence of a thing," the Baron said, "this can be as deadly as the presence. The absence of air, eh? The absence of water? The absence of anything else we're addicted to.

It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

I have been a stranger in a strange land,'" Halleck quoted.