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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 -% |