Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed.

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.