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-Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life.
-A man unwilling to take risk is doomed
-never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
-
- -- PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet
-%
-Behold, O Man, you can create life. You can destroy life.
-But, lo, you have no choice but to experience life.
-And therein lies both your greatest strength and
-your greatest weakness.
-
- -- Orange Catholic Bible, Book of Kimla Septima, 5:3
-%
-Secrets are an important aspect of power.
-The effective leader spreads them in
-order to keep men in line.
-
- -- PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership
- in a Galactic Imperium, Twelfth Edition
-%
-In the days of Old Terra there were experts in poisons, deviously clever
-persons who dealt in what were known as "the powders of inheritance."
-
- -- Filmbook excerpt, Royal Library of Kaitain
-%
-It is said that there is nothing firm, nothing balanced, nothing durable in all
-the universe -- that nothing remains in its original state, that each day, each
-hour, each moment, there is change.
-
- -- Panoplia Propheticus of the Bene Gesserit
-%
-Nature commits no errors; right and wrong are human categories.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES, Arrakis Lectures
-%
-Before us, all methods of learning were tainted by instinct. Before us,
-instinct-ridden researchers possessed a limited attention span -- often no
-longer than a single lifetime. Projects stretching across fifty or more
-generations never occurred to them. The concept of total muscle/nerve training
-had not entered their awareness. We learned how to learn.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Azhar Book
-%
-"Xuttuh" is a word that means many things. Every Bene Tleilax knows it was the
-name of the first Master. But just as that man was more than a mere mortal, so
-there are depths and complexities in the appellation. Depending upon tone and
-vocal inflection, "Xuttuh" can mean "hello" or "blessings be upon you." Or it
-can constitute a prayer encompassed in a single word, as a devotee prepares to
-die for the Great Belief. For such reasons, we have chosen this as our new
-name for the conquered planet formerly known as Ix.
-
- -- Tleilaxu Training Disk
-%
-A center for the coordination of rebellion can be mobile; it does not need to
-be a permanent place where people meet.
-
- -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall
- of Unjust Governments
-%
-It is said that the Fremen has no conscience, having lost it in a burning
-desire for revenge. This is foolish. Only the rawest primitive and the
-sociopath have no conscience. The Fremen possesses a highly evolved worldview
-centered on the welfare of his people. His sense of belonging to the community
-is almost stronger than his sense of self. It is only to outsiders that these
-desert dwellers seem brutish . . . just as outsiders appear to them.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES, The People of Arrakis
-%
-An empire built on power cannot attract the affections and loyalty that men
-bestow willingly on a regime of ideas and beauty. Adorn your Grand Empire with
-beauty, with culture.
-
- -- From a speech by CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO: L'Institut de Kaitain Archives
-%
-Military victories are meaningless unless they reflect the wishes
-of the populace. An Emperor exists only to clarify those wishes.
-He executes the popular will, or his time is short.
-
- -- Principium, Imperial Leadership Academy
-%
-Organizational structure is crucial to the success of a movement.
-It is, as well, a prime target for attack.
-
- -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall
- of Unjust Governments
-%
-The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what
-they think it is.
-
- -- SIGAN VISEE, First Head Instructor, Guild Navigator School
-%
-War is a form of organic behavior. The army is a means of survival for the
-all-male group. The all-female group, on the other hand, is traditionally
-religion-oriented. They are the keepers of sacred mysteries.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Teaching
-%
-What is this Love that so many speak of with such apparent familiarity?
-Do they truly comprehend how unattainable it is? Are there not as many
-definitions of Love as there are stars in the universe?
-
- -- The Bene Gesserit Question Book
-%
-When you ask a question, do you truly want to know the answer, or are you
-merely flaunting your power?
-
- -- DMITRI HARKONNEN, Notes to My Sons
-%
-Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.
-
- -- Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-The strictest limits are self-imposed.
-
- -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster
-%
-Special knowledge can be a terrible disadvantage if it leads you too far along
-a path that you cannot explain anymore.
-
- -- Mentat Admonition
-%
-Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
-
- -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Leadership
-%
-The desert is a surgeon cutting away the skin to expose what is underneath.
-
- -- Fremen Saying
-%
-The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Precept
-%
-Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the
-encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden
-assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made
-in search of personal power . . . all mingled with shreds of enlightenment.
-And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is "Thou shalt not question!"
-But we do anyway. We break that commandment as a matter of course.
-The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination,
-the harnessing of imagination to humankind's deepest sense of creativity.
-
- -- Credo of the Bene Gesserit Sisterhood
-%
-Humiliation is a thing never forgotten.
-
- -- REBEC of Ginaz
-%
-Learn to recognize the future the way a Steersman identifies
-guiding stars and corrects the course of his vessel.
-Learn from the past; never use it as an anchor.
-
- -- SIGAN VISEE, First Head Instructor, Guild Navigator School
-%
-The Unknown surrounds us at any given moment. That is where we seek knowledge.
-
- -- MOTHER SUPERIOR RAQUELLA BERTO-ANIRUL: Oratory Against Fear
-%
-Thinking, and the methods by which thoughts are communicated,
-inevitably create a system permeated by illusions.
-
- -- Zensunni Teaching
-%
-There is no reality -- only our own order imposed on everything.
-
- -- Basic Bene Gesserit Dictum
-%
-Immobility is often mistaken for peace.
-
- -- EMPEROR ELROOD CORRINO IX
-%
-To learn about this universe, one must embark on a course of discovery where
-real dangers exist. Education cannot impart this discovery; it is not a thing
-to be taught and used or put away. It has no goals. In our universe, we
-consider goals to be end products, and they are deadly if one becomes fixated
-on them.
-
- -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster
-%
-Never underestimate the power of the human mind to believe
-what it wants to believe, no matter the conflicting evidence.
-
- -- CAEDMON ERB, Politics and Reality
-%
-It is the Atreides way to be examples of honor for our children,
-so that they may be the same for their own progeny.
-
- -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES, First Speech to the Caladan Assembly
-%
-It is true that one may become rich through practicing evil, but the power of
-Truth and Justice is that they endure . . . and that a man can say of them,
-"They are a heritage from my father."
-
- -- Fifth Dynasty (Old Terra) calendar: The Wisdom of Ptahhotep
-%
-A man who persists in stalking game in a place where there is none may wait
-forever without finding any success. Persistence in search is not enough.
-
- -- Zensunni Wisdom of the Wanderings
-%
-The effective ruler punishes opposition while rewarding assistance; he shifts
-his forces in random fashion; he conceals major elements of his power; he sets
-up a rhythm of counter movement that keeps opponents off balance.
-
- -- WESTHEIMER ATREIDES, Elements of Leadership
-%
-The Universe operates on a basic principle of economics: everything has
-its cost. We pay to create our future, we pay for the mistakes of the past.
-We pay for every change we make . . . and we pay just as dearly if we
-refuse to change.
-
- -- Guild Bank Annals, Philosophical Register
-%
-The increasing variety and abundance of life itself vastly multiplies the
-number of niches available for life. The resulting system is a web of makers
-and users, eaters and eaten, collaborators and competitors.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES, Report to Emperor Shaddam IV
-%
-To know what one ought to do is not enough.
-
- -- PRINCE RHOMBUR VERNIUS
-%
-Facts mean nothing when they are preempted by appearances.
-Do not underestimate the power of impression over reality.
-
- -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, The Rudiments of Power
-%
-If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though,
-no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
-
- -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-Dreams are as simple or as complicated as the dreamer.
-
- -- LIET-KYNES, In the Footsteps of My Father
-%
-Water is the image of life. We came from water, adapted from its
-all-encompassing presence . . . and we continue to adapt.
-
- -- IMPERIAL PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES
-%
-I stand in the sacred human presence. As I do now, so should you stand some
-day. I pray to your presence that this be so. Let the future remain uncertain
-for that is the canvas to receive our desires. Thus the human condition faces
-its perpetual tabula rasa. We possess no more than this moment where we
-dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence we share and create.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Benediction
-%
-I fought in great wars to defend the Imperium and slew many men in the
-Emperor's name. I attended Landsraad functions. I toured the continents of
-Caladan. I managed all the tedious business matters required to run a Great
-House. And still the best of times were those I spent with my son.
-
- -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-Body and mind are two phenomena, observed under different conditions, but of
-one and the same ultimate reality. Body and mind are aspects of the living
-being. They operate within a peculiar principle of synchronicity wherein
-things happen together and behave as if they are the same . . . yet can be
-conceived of as separate.
-
- -- Staff Medical Manual, Ginaz School
-%
-The Universe is a place inaccessible, unintelligible, completely absurd . . .
-from which life -- especially rational life -- is estranged. There is no place
-of safety, or basic principle upon which the Universe depends. There are only
-transitory, masked relationships, confined within limited dimensions, and bound
-for inevitable change.
-
- -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text
-%
-The Bene Gesserit tell no casual lies. Truth serves us better.
-
- -- BENE GESSERIT CODA
-%
-The man who gives in to adrenaline addiction turns against all humanity.
-He turns against himself. He runs away from the workable issues of life and
-admits a defeat which his own violent actions help to create.
-
- -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall of Unjust
-Governments
-%
-There exists no way of exchanging information without making judgments.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-Infinity attracts us like a floodlight in the night, blinding us to the
-excesses it can inflict upon the finite.
-
- -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text
-%
-Love is the highest achievement to which any human may aspire.
-It is an emotion that encompasses the full depth of heart, mind, and soul.
-
- -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering
-%
-It is possible to become intoxicated with rebellion for rebellion's sake.
-
- -- DOMINIC VERNIUS, Ecaz Memoirs
-%
-What is each man but a memory for those who follow?
-
- -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES
-%
-A man may fight the greatest enemy, take the longest journey, survive the most
-grievous wound -- and still be helpless in the hands of the woman he loves.
-
- -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering
-%
-Political leaders often don't recognize the practical uses of imagination and
-innovative new ideas until such forms are thrust under their noses by bloody
-hands.
-
- -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, Discourses on Galactic Leadership
-%
-Enemies strengthen you; allies weaken.
-
- -- EMPEROR ELROOD IX, Deathbed Insights
-%
-The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be
-experienced.
-
- -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text
-%
-The work to which we have set ourselves is the liberating of the imagination,
-and the harnessing of the imagination to man's physical creativity.
-
- -- FRIEDRE GINAZ, Philosophy of the Swordmaster
-%
-Nature has moved inexplicably backward and forward to produce this marvelous,
-subtle Spice. One is tempted to suggest that only divine intervention could
-possibly have produced a substance which in one aspect extends human life and
-in another opens the inner doors of the psyche to the wonders of Time and
-Creation.
-
- -- HIDAR FEN AJIDICA, Laboratory Notes on the Nature of Melange
-%
-Freedom is an elusive concept. Some men hold themselves prisoner even
-when they have the power to do as they please and go where they choose,
-while others are free in their hearts, even as shackles restrain them.
-
- -- Zensunni Wisdom from the Wandering
-%
-Heaven must be the sound of running water.
-
- -- Fremen Saying
-%
-Look inside yourself and you can see the universe.
-
- -- Zensunni Aphorism
-%
-Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions, which have been
-similar throughout the ages. One such condition is a permanent state of
-alertness to ward off attack. Another is the rule of the autocrat.
-
- -- CAMMAR PILRU, Ixian Ambassador in Exile: Treatise on the Downfall
- of Unjust Governments
-%
-Beneath a world -- in its rocks, its dirt and sedimentary overlays --
-there you find the planet's memory, the complete analog of its existence,
-its ecological memory.
-
- -- PARROT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer
-%
-A Duke must always take control of his household, for if he does not
-rule those closest to him, he cannot hope to govern a planet.
-
- -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-We create our own future by our own beliefs, which control our actions.
-A strong enough belief system, a sufficiently powerful conviction,
-can make anything happen. This is how we create our consensus reality,
-including our gods.
-
- -- REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO, Sayyadina of the Fremen
-%
-Challenge: Time?
-Answer: A brilliant, many-faceted gem.
-
-Challenge: Time?
-Answer: A dark stone, reflecting no visible light.
-
- -- Fremen wisdom, from The Riddle Game
-%
-It requires a desperate and lonely sort of courage to challenge the accepted
-wisdom upon which social peace of mind rests.
-
- -- CROWN PRINCE RAPHAEL CORRINO, In Defense of Change in the Face of Tradition
-%
-There is no such thing as a law of nature. There is only a series of laws
-relating to man's practical experience with nature. These are laws of man's
-activities. They change as man's activities change.
-
- -- PARROT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer
-%
-One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp with too much force is to be
-taken over by power, thus becoming its victim.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may
-perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
-
- -- Mentat Objective Analysis of Human Capabilities
-%
-Power and deceit are tools of statecraft, yes. But remember that power deludes
-the ones who wield it -- making them believe it can overcome the defects of
-their ignorance.
-
- -- COUNT FLAMBERT MUTELLI, early speech in Landsraad Hall of Oratory
-%
-Never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
-
- -- Fremen Saying
-%
-If a man can accept his sin, he can live with it. If a man cannot accept
-personal sin, he suffers unbearable consequences.
-
- -- Meditations from Bifrost Eyrie, Buddislamic Text
-%
-The capacity to learn is a gift; The ability to learn is a skill; The
-willingness to learn is a choice.
-
- -- REBEC OF GINAZ
-%
-How to define the Kwisatz Haderach? The male who is everywhere simultaneously,
-the only man who can truly become the greatest human of all of us, mingling
-masculine and feminine ancestry with inseparable power.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Azhar Book
-%
-You carve wounds upon my flesh and write there in salt!
-
- -- Fremen Lament
-%
-The stone is heavy and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than
-them both.
-
- -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES
-%
-Innovation and daring create heroes. Mindless adherence
-to outdated rules creates only politicians.
-
- -- VISCOUNT HUNDRO MORITANI
-%
-How easily grief becomes anger, and revenge gains arguments.
-
- -- PADISHAH EMPEROR HASSIK III, Lament for Salusa Secundus
-%
-Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind me.
-
- -- Fremen Conundrum
-%
-If God wishes thee to perish, He causes thy steps to
-lead thee to the place of thy demise.
-
- -- Cant of the Shariat
-%
-Treachery and quick-thinking will defeat hard-and-fast rules any day.
-Why should we be afraid to seize the opportunities we see?
-
- -- VISCOUNT HUNDRO MORITANI, Response to Landsraad Court Summons
-%
-All technology is suspect, and must be considered potentially dangerous.
-
- -- BUTLERIAN JIHAD, Handbook for Our Grandchildren
-%
-The seats of power inevitably try to harness any new knowledge to their own
-desires. But knowledge can have no fixed desires -- neither in the past nor in
-the future.
-
- -- DMITRI HARKONNEN, Lessons for My Sons
-%
-The haughty do but build castle walls behind which they try to hide their
-doubts and fears.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-The individual is the key, the final effective unit of all biological processes.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES
-%
-Good leadership is largely invisible. When everything runs smoothly, no one
-notices a Duke's work. That is why he must give the people something to cheer,
-something to talk about, something to remember.
-
- -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%
-War, as the foremost ecological disaster of any age, merely reflects the larger
-state of human affairs in which the total organism called "humanity" finds its
-existence.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES, Reflections on the Disaster at Salusa Secundus
-%
-Beware the seeds you sow and the crops you reap. Do not curse God for the
-punishment you inflict upon yourself.
-
- -- Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-Every man dreams of the future, though not all of us will be there to see it.
-
- -- TIO HOLTZMAN, Speculations on Time and Space
-%
-Knowledge is pitiless.
-
- -- Orange Catholic Bible
-%
-The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved.
-They can only be outgrown.
-
- -- SISTER JESSICA, private journal entry
-%
-Why look for meaning where there is none?
-Would you follow a path you know leads nowhere?
-
- -- Query of the Mentat School
-%
-Humans must never submit to animals.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Teaching
-%
-To keep from dying is not the same as "to live."
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Saying
-%
-We are always human and carry the whole burden of being human.
-
- -- DUKE LETO ATREIDES
-%
-No one person can ever know everything that is in the heart of another.
-We are all Face Dancers in our souls.
-
- -- Tleilaxu Secret Handbook
-%
-We as humans tend to make pointless demands of our universe, asking meaningless
-questions. Too often we make such queries after developing an expertise within
-a frame of reference which has little or no relationship to the context in
-which the question is asked.
-
- -- Zensunni Observation
-%
-The ego is only a bit of consciousness swimming upon the ocean of dark things.
-We are an enigma unto ourselves.
-
- -- The Mentat Handbook
-%
-The individual is shocked by the overwhelming discovery of his own mortality.
-The species, however, is different. It need not die.
-
- -- PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer
-%
-The man faced with a life-and-death decision must commit himself,
-or he will remain caught in the pendulum.
-
- -- From "In My Father's House," by the Princess Irulan
-%
-Love is an ancient force, one that served its purpose in its day but is no
-longer essential for the survival of the species.
-
- -- Bene Gesserit Axiom
-%
-How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.
-
- -- ABULURD HARKONNEN
-%
-Some say that the anticipation of a thing is better than the thing itself.
-In my view, this is utter nonsense. Any fool can imagine a prize.
-I desire the tangible.
-
- -- HASIMIR FENRING, Letters from Arrakis
-%
-Though death will cancel it, life in this world is a glorious thing.
-
- -- DUKE PAULUS ATREIDES
-%