"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror."Death
"The spice is the source and sink of all wealth."Money
"Peace is the period between wars."War
"No monument of stone can stand against the passage of time."Time
"The hegemony of nature ensures that survival is earned."Nature
"A powerful person tends to move as though time follows the dictates of his will."Power
"Men and women all through the universe are united by the common drive to understand their place in it."Philosophy
"The universe is vast and a human life is nothing compared to it"Philosophy
"Humans are pattern-making creatures. It is our nature to impose order on chaos"Knowledge
"Paul saw the trap then, the obligation to succeed"Wisdom
"The ornithopter wobbled as its sand-wings beat against the atmosphere"Adventure
"In the beginning, there was only the desert"Nature
"The sleeper must awaken because the universe demands it"Motivation
"The design of a thing revels the thing itself"Knowledge
"To endure is to change, and not to change is to cease to exist"Change
"Knowledge is power, and power demands sacrifice"Knowledge
"In silence, a man hears truth"Solitude
"We are all servants of something greater than ourselves"Faith
"His eyes were open but unseeing."
"Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping away the superfluous."Philosophy
"Mentats are human computers."Science
"The prophecies had been implanted by the Bene Gesserit."
"The weak and the strong are defined by their choices."Strength
"He who controls the spice controls the universe."Power
"There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors."History
"In the shadow of great empires, small men plot their rise."Power
"Plans within plans within plans—the game of houses."
"The spice must flow, or all of creation grinds to halt."
"The test of any society is how it treats its weakest members"Justice
"Authority derived from centuries of continuous possession has a mystique"Leadership