Ya! Ya! Yawm!

Kull Wahad! Mi'am adus aminte...



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Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife — chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
from Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

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.
from The Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
from Manual of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan



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

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
The last thought of Kynes before he died of a dust whirlpool caused by a pre-mass spice gas explosion

Here lies a toppled god —
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and tall one.
Tleilaxu Epigram



It is said of Muad'dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained.
from The Commentaries, by the Princess Irulan

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
Duncan Idaho, quoting an ancient Fremen saying

The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
Paul Muad'Dib