Hard tasks need hard ways.

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.

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.

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.

Heaven shows up all the time. But we plan our time so that we show up in other places.

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

What is evil? There is no such thing. In Buddhism we don't recognize evil and therefore we don't give it any power over us.

You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

Composers and musicians have always starved and, as this is a sentimental country, we think the tradition should be continued.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.