Calvin & Muad'Dib

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Genesis does not stop. Your god continues creating you.

A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

When you are together, you can share a common catastrophe. You can be exterminated together. Thus, I demonstrate the terrible danger of a gliding, passionless mediocrity, a movement without ambitions or aims. I show you that entire civilizations can do this thing. I give you eons of life which slips gently toward death without fuss or stirring, without even asking 'Why?' I show you the false happiness and the shadow-catastrophe called Leto, the God Emperor. Now, will you learn the real happiness? 🎄 Merry Christmas everyone ⛄️

Hope clouds observation.

it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class.

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

Government is a shared myth. When the myth dies, the government dies.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

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

Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.