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

If a guru falls in the forest with no one to hear him, was he really a guru at all?

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. T

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

"She said, `I know you ... you cannot sing'. I said, `That's nothing, you should hear me play piano.'"