“The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“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.”

“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”

“History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Education helps but it’s never enough. You also must run.”

“Things could not be forever ordered and formulated. He had to find the rhythm of change and see between the changes to the changing itself.”

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.”