Quotes About Creation

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. -Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

God created Arrakis to train the faithful.

The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world.

There are some things no one can bear. I meddled in all the possible futures I could create until, finally, they created me.

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.

Do you want me to say that men create gods to enforce their definitions of good and evil?

Paul confronted his son then, aiming the eyeless sockets at Leto. "Do you really know the universe you have created here?

Indeed, it was the Bene Gesserit view that humans were life designed by evolution to create order.

The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence.

Stuff that into your womb and give birth to it elsewhere!

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as raw material from which to create order. That was the Mentat approach, giving no unalterable truths but a remarkable lever for decision-making: orderly assemblage of data in a non-discrete system.

The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.

There's no mighty seat of reason which dwells within the brain. Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a backgroundwhich He already knew. The wall was blank. Then there was movement.

Maker—their word for worm

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,' " Paul quoted.

Is there some frontier? Idaho asked. Is there some frontier where I could go and never again be part of this? If there is to be any frontier, you must help me create it, Leto said.

We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God.

If there is no enemy, one must be invented.