“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?”
― Dune Messiah
― Dune Messiah
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Dune
― Dune
“My Uncle Malky always said the Lord Leto never responded to prayer. He said the Lord Leto looked on prayer as attempted coercion, a form of violence against the chosen god, telling the immortal what to do: Give me a miracle, God, or I won't believe in you!”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
“Questions are my enemies. For my questions explode!”
― God Emperor of Dune
― God Emperor of Dune
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