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

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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.

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

June, " Day murmurs. I feel a strange warmth at the sound of my name on his lips.

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

Friends are an intersection. A route back to the world.

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition.

This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at the outset lead to some valuable conclusions.

The noiseless foot of Tune steals swiftly by And ere we dream of manhood, age is nigh.

Any life worth living is going to have risks

Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.

I never feel guilty about liking music.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.