Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.

Don't, but if at all, then, lie to the whole damn world - never to your own damn, silly stupid self.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

Almost all war making states borrow extensively, raise taxes, and seize the means of combat - including men - from reluctant citizens.

As long as the wrong feels right - it's like I'm in flight.

A labyrinthine man never seeks the truth, but only his Ariadne.

Publicity, publicity, PUBLICITY is the greatest moral factor and force in our public life.

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for!

No one wants to hear about the labor pains, they just want to see the baby.

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?"