Dune (1965 – 2023)

Children of Dune (1976)

1. Muad’Dib’s teachings have become the playground of scholastics, of the superstitious and the corrupt. / Words of the Mentat Duncan Idaho

2. CHALLENGE: “Have you seen The Preacher?” / Riddles of Arrakis, by Harq al-Ada

3. The sietch at the desert’s rim / from a Fremen song

4. melange (mé-lange also ma’lanj) n-s, / Dictionary Royal, fifth edition

5. The Fremen must return to his original faith, to his genius in forming human communities; / The Preacher at Arrakeen

6. I give you the desert chameleon, / Book of Diatribes, from the Hayt Chronicle

7. The Universe is God’s. / Commentaries from the C.E.T. (Commission of Ecumenical Translators)

8. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the sand; / Revised Orange Catholic Bible

9. It is commonly reported, my dear Georad, that there exists great natural virtue in the melange experience. / The Pedant Heresy

10. Either we abandon the long-honored Theory of Relativity, or we cease to believe that we can engage in continued accurate prediction of the f

11. I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. / Leto’s Vow, After Har

12. There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: / From the Instruction Manual: Missionaria Protectiva

13. A sophisticated human can become primitive. / The Leto Commentary, After Harq al-Ada

14. This was Muad’Dib’s achievement: / Testament of Arrakis, by Harq al-Ada

15. And he saw a vision of armor. / Heighia, My Brother’s Dream, from The Book of Ghanima

16. Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. / The Apocrypha of Muad’Dib

17. I will not argue with the Fremen claims that they are divinely inspired to transmit a religious revelation. / The Preacher at Arrakeen

18. The life of a single human, as the life of a family or an entire people, persists as memory. / The Book of Leto, After Harq al-Ada

19. A Fremen dies when he is too long from the desert; this we call “the water sickness.” / Stilgar, the Commentaries

20. You have loved Caladan / Refrain from The Habbanya Lament

21. The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, / The Book of Leto, After Harq al-Ada

22. Good government never depends upon laws, / Law and Governance, The Spacing Guild Manual

23. This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. / The Preacher at Arrakeen

24. When I am weaker than you, / Words of an ancient philosopher (Attributed by Harq al-Ada to one Louis Veuillot)

25. You Bene Gesserit call your activity of the Panoplia Prophetica a “Science of Religion.” / The Preacher at Arrakeen: A Message to the Sister

26. The universe is just there; that’s the only way a Fedaykin can view it and remain the master of his senses. / Muad’Dib to his Fedaykin

27. It is said of Muad’Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, / The Commentaries

28. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. / Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Man

29. In this age when the means of human transport include devices which can span the deeps of space in transtime, / Handbook of the Hajj

30. In all major socializing forces you will find an underlying movement to gain and maintain power through the use of words. / Lecture to the A

31. The password was given to me by a man who died in the dungeons of Arrakeen. / Tagir Mohandis: Conversations with a Friend

32. I saw his blood and a piece of his robe which had been ripped by sharp claws. / Stilgar’s Report to the Landsraad Commission

33. Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. / The Mentat Handbook

34. The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not look far afield for problems. / The Azhar Book; Shamra I:4

35. Only in the realm of methematics can you understand Muad’Dib’s precise view of the future. / Pallmbasha: Lectures at Sietch Tabr

36. We can still remember the golden days before Heisenberg, who showed humans the walls enclosing our predestined arguments. / Leo Atreides II,

37. If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. / The Open-Ended Proof, from The Panoplia Prophetica

38. Because of the one-pointed Time awareness in which the conventional mind remains immersed, / Liet-Kynes, The Arrakis Workbook

39. You will learn the integrated communication methods as you complete the next step in your mentat education. / The Mentat Handbook

40. O Paul, thou Muad’Dib, / Songs of Muad’Dib

41. Many forces sought control of the Atreides twins and, when the death of Leto was announced, this movement of plot and counterplot was amplif

42. There is no guilt or innocence in you. / Leto II to His Memory-Lives, After Harq al-Ada

43. Humankind periodically goes through a speedup of its affairs, / The Apocrypha of Muad’Dib

44. Natural selection has been described as an environment selectively screening for those who will have progeny. / The Dune Catastrophe, After

45. One small bird has called thee / Lament for Leto II

46. Peace demands solutions, but we never reaching living solutions; / The Words of My Father: an account of Muad’Dib, reconstructed by Harq al-

47. This rocky shrine to the skull of a rule grants no prayers. / Lines at the Shrine of an Atreides Duke, Anon.

48. There exists obvious higher-order influences in any planetary system. / The Dune Catastrophe, After Harq al-Ada

49. What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. / A letter to CHOAM, Attribu

50. The future of prescience cannot always be locked into the rules of the past. / Kalima: The Words of Muad’Dib, The Shuloch Commentary

51. Fremen speech implies great concision, a precise sense of expression. / Bene Gesserit Private Reports/folio 800881

52. The spirit of Muad’Dib is more than words, more than the letter of the Law which arises in his name. / The Fedaykin Compact

53. Limits of survival are set by climate, those long drifts of change which a generation may fail to notice. / Arrakis, the Transformation, Aft

54. Thou didst divide the sand by thy strength; Thou breakest the heads of the dragons in the desert. / Revised Orange Catholic Bible, Arran II:

55. Fremen were the first humans to develop a conscious/unconscious symbology through which to experience the movements and relationships of the

56. After the Fremen, all Planetologists see life as expressions of energy and look for the overriding relationships. / The Arrakeen Catastrophe

57. Any path which narrows future possibilities may become a lethal trap. / The Spacing Guild Handbook

58. By these acts Leto II removed himself from the evolutionary succession. / The Holy Metamorphosis, by Harq al-Ada

59. Muad’Dib was disinherited and he spoke for the disinherited of all time. / The Mahdinate, An Analysis, by Harq al-Ada

60. Church and State, scientific reason and faith, the individual and his community, even progress and tradition—all of these can be reconciled

61. Muad’Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, / The Prescient Vision, by Harq al-Ada

62. The child who refuses to travel in the father’s harness, this is the symbol of man’s most unique capability. / Leto Atreides II, The Harq al

63. The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. /

64. As with so many other religions, Muad’Dib’s Golden Elixir of Life degenerated into external wizardry. / Saying attribute to Lu Tung-pin (Lu,

God Emperor of Dune (1981)

1. Excerpt from the speech by Hadi Benotto announcing the discoveries at Dar-es-Balat on the planet of Rakis. From the reading by Rebeth Vreeb.

2. This morning I was born in a yurt at the edge of horse-plain in a land of a planet which no longer exists … / The Stolen Journals

3. The following is from the Hadi Benotto translation of the volumes discovered at Dar-es-Balat: I was born Leto Atreides II more than three th

4. The following brief dialogue is credit to a manuscript source called “The Welbeck Fragment.” …

5. I am the most ardent people-watcher who ever lived. … / The Stolen Journals

6. Oh, the landscapes I have seen! And the people! … / The Stolen Journals

7. Sometimes I indulge myself in safaris which no other being may take. … / The Stolen Journals

8. You, the first person to encounter my chronicles for at least four thousand years, beware. … / Inscription on the storehouse at Dar-es-Balat

9. Enemies strengthen you. Allies weaken. … / The Stolen Journals

10. Some say I have no conscience. How false they are, even to themselves … / The Stolen Journals

11. You must remember that I have at my internal demand every expertise known to our history. … / The Stolen Journals

12. Your Lord knows very well what is in your heart. Your soul suffices this day at a reckoner against you. … / Lord Leto to a Penitent, From th

13. Odd as it may seem, great struggles such as the one y7ou can see emerging from my journals are not always visible to the participants. … / T

14. The Duncans always think it odd that I choose women for combat forces, but my Fish Speakers are a temporary army in every sense. … / The Sto

15. I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. … / The Stolen Journals

16. What is the most profound difference between us, between you and me? … / The Stolen Journals

17. The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing – care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love an

18. Unceasing warfare gives rise to its own social conditions which have been similar in all epochs. … / The Stolen Journals

19. Over here sand blows; over there sand blows. Over there a rich man waits; over here I wait. / The Voice of Shai-Hulud, From the Oral History

20. Our ancestor, Assur-nasir-apli, who was known as the cruelest of the cruel, seized the throne by slaying his own father and starting the rei

21. I am beginning to hate water. The sandtrout skin which impels my metamorphosis has learned the sensitivities of the worm. … / The Stolen Jou

22. “Another Festival so soon?” the Lord Leto asked. “It has been ten years,” the majordomo said. Do you think by this exchange that the Lord Le

23. From that welter of memories which I can tap at will, patterns emerge. They are like another language which I see so clearly. … / The Stolen

24. Safaris through ancestral memories teach me many things. The patterns, ahhh, the patterns. … / The Stolen Journals

25. The trance-state of prophecy is like no other visionary experience. It is not a retreat from the raw exposure of the senses (as are many tra

26. When I set out to lead humankind along my Golden Path, I promised them a lesson their bones would remember. … / The Stolen Journals

27. As each day passes, you become increasingly unreal, more alien and remote from what I find myself to be on that new day. … / The Stolen Jour

28. The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God? / Muad’Dib, From the Oral History

29. I am both father and mother to my people. I have known the ecstasy of birth and the ecstasy of death and I know the patterns that you must l

30. I have isolated the city-experience within me and have examined it closely. The idea of a city fascinates me. … / The Stolen Journals

31. The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. / The Stolen Journals

32. Groups tend to condition their surroundings for group survival. When they deviate from this it may be taken as a sign of group sickness. … /

33. If you know all of your ancestors, you were a personal witness to the events which created the myths and religions of our past. … / The Stol

34. Let there be no doubt that I am the assemblage of our ancestors, the arena in which they exercise my moments. … / The Stolen Journals

35. “Make no heroes,” my father said. / The voice of Ghanima, From the Oral History

36. The prophet is not diverted by illusions of past, present and future. The fixity of language determines such linear distinctions. … / The St

37. The pattern of monarchies and similar systems has a message of value for all political forms. My memories assure me that governments of any

38. You know the myth of the Great Spice Hoard? Yes, I know about that story, too. … / The Stolen Journals

39. Memory has a curious meaning to me, a meaning I have hoped others might share. … / The Stolen Journals

40. The realization of what I am occurs in the timeless awareness which does not accumulate nor discard, which does not stimulate nor delude. …

41. One of the most terrible words in any language is Soldier. … / The Stolen Journals

42. Do you know what guerrillas often say? They claim that their rebellions are invulnerable to economic warfare because they have no economy, t

43. In the cradle of our past, I lay upon my back in a cave so shallow I could penetrate it only by squirming, not by crawling. … / The Stolen J

44. The Duncans sometimes ask if I understand the exotic ideas of our past? And if I understand them, why can’t I explain them? … / The Stolen J

45. Given enough time for the generations to evolve, the predator produces particular survival adaptations in its prey which, through the circul

46. It required almost a thousand years before the dust of Dune’s old planet-wide desert left the atmosphere to be bound up in soil and water. …

47. Most civilization is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. … / The Stolen Journals

48. What is the most immediate danger to my stewardship? I will tell you … / The Stolen Journals

49. You cannot understand history unless you understand its flowings, its currents and the ways leaders move within such forces. … / The Stolen

50. You think power may be the most unstable of all human achievements? Then what of the apparent exceptions to this inherent instability? … / T

51. Think of it as plastic memory, this force within you which trends you and your fellows toward tribal forms. … / The Stolen Journals

52. What am I eliminating? The bourgeois infatuation with peaceful conservation of the past. … / The Stolen Journals

53. In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. … / The Stolen journals

54. Excerpt from the Hadi Benotto secret summation on the discoveries at Dar-es-Balat. /

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Heretics of Dune (1984)

1. Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. … / The Apocrypha of Arrakis

2. Explosions are also compressions of time. Observable changes in the natural universe all are explosive to some degree and from some point of

3. The existence of no-ships raises the possibility of destroying entire planets without retaliation. … / Bene Gesserit Analysis

4. Humans live best when each has his place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy

5. Has not religion claimed a patent on creation for all of these millennia? / The Tleilaxu Question, from Muad’dib Speaks

6. Some days it’s mélange; some days it’s bitter dirt. / Rakian Aphorism

7. The trouble with some kinds of warfare (and be certain the Tyrant knew this, because it is implicit in his lesson) is that they destroy all

8. Ten thousand years since Leto II began his metamorphosis from human into the sandworm of Rakis and historians still argue over his motives.

9. Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. … / Assessment of Ix, Bene Gesserit Archives

10. In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. … / The Reverend Mother Taraza, Conver

11. The Tleilaxu secret must be in their sperm. Our tests prove that their sperm does not carry forward in a straight genetic fashion. Gaps occu

12. The outer surface of a balloon is always larger than the center of the damned thing! That’s the whole point of the Scattering! / Bene Gesser

13. The failure of CHOAM? Quite simple: They ignore the fact that larger commercial powers wait at the edges of their activities, powers that co

14. At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough

15. Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent mutual regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities int

16. Law always chooses sides on the basis of enforcement power. … / Bene Gesserit Council Proceedings: Archives #XOX232

17. The basic rule is this: Never support weakness; always support strength. / The Bene Gesserit Coda

18. Nothing surpasses the complexity of the human mind. / Leto II: Dar-es-Balat Records

19. The significant fact is this: No Bene Tleilax female has ever been seen away from the protection of their core planets. … / Bene Gesserit An

20. What social inheritances went outward with the Scattering? We know those times intimately. … / The Scattering: Bene Gesserit Analysis (Archi

21. Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in abs

22. Quite naturally, holders of power wish to suppress “wild” research. Unrestricted questing after knowledge has a long history of producing un

23. Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation … / A Guide to Trial and Error in Government, Be

24. The long table on the right is set for a banquet of roast desert hare in sauce cepeda. … / Dar-es-Balat, Description at a Museum Display

25. People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. … / Leadership Secrets of the Bene Gesserit

26. There was this drylander who was asked which was more important, a literjon of water or a vast pool of water? … / The Jokes of Ancient Dune,

27. By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! … / First Draft, Atreides Manifes

28. We have long known that the objects of our palpable sense experiences can be influenced by choice – both conscious choice and unconscious. …

29. This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. … / The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesseri

30. This room reconstructs a bit of the desert of Dune. … / Guide Announcement, Museum of Dar-es-Balat

31. Our fathers ate manna in the desert, … / Songs of Gurney Halleck, Museum of Dar-es-Balat

32. All organized religions face a common problem, a tender spot through which we may enter and shift them to our designs: How do they distingui

33. I remember friends from wars all but we forgot. … / Songs of the Scattering

34. It is your fate, forgetfulness. All of the old lessons of life, you lose and gain and lose and gain again. / Leto II, the Voice of Dar-es-Ba

35. Survival of self, of species, and of environment, these are what drive humans. … / Leto II to Hwi Noree, His Voice: Dar-es-Balat

36. There was a man who sat each day looking out through a narrow vertical opening where a single board had been removed from a tall wooden fenc

37. Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they c

38. “I must rule with eye and claw – as the hawk among lesser birds.” / Atreides assertion (Ref: GB Archives)

39. Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that in

40. Concealed behind strong barriers the heart becomes ice. / Darwi Odrade, Argument in Council

41. When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training. / The Lady Jessica, from “Wisdom of Arrakis”

42. May you die on Caladan! / Ancient Drinking Toast

43. The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. … / From “Lessons of Arrakis”

44. O you who know what we suffer here, do not forget us in your prayers. / Sign over Arrakeen Landing Field (Historical Records: Dar-es-Balat)

45. The world is for the living. Who are they? … / Theodore Roethke (Historical Quotations: Dar-es-Balat)

46. Justice? Who asks for justice. We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis – win or die. … / Leto I: Bene Gesserit Archives

47. We are not looking at a new state of matter but at a newly recognized relationship between consciousness and matter, which provides a more p

Chapterhouse: Dune (1985)

1. Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. / Bene Gesserit Coda

2. When I set out of lead humanity along my Golden Path I promised a lesson their bones would remember. … / Leto II, the God Emperor

3. The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. / The Zensufi Master

4. Rules build up fortifications behind which small minds create satrapies. A perilous state of affairs in the best of times, disastrous during

5. We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose. / Bene Gesserit Coda

6. You cannot know history unless you know ho leaders move with its currents. / Leto II (The Tyrant), Vether Bebe Translation

7. You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string. / The Zensunni Whip

8. Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. / Darwi Odrade

9. All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic

10. The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind grea

11. Corruption wears infinite disguises. / Tleilaxu Thu-zen

12. Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation o

13. Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a sub

14. Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements m

15. Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit. This is the fine point on which all the legal professions of history have base

16. We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences – the tracks of the beast in its forest. … / Bene G

17. They say Mother Superior can disregard nothing – a meaningless aphorism until you grasp its other significance: I am the servant of all my S

18. All states are abstractions. / Octun Politicus, GB Archives

19. Some never participate. Life happens to them. … / Alma Mavis Taraza

20. To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. … / (Bene Gesserit Commentary)

21. Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. … / Mentat Fixe (adacto)

22. Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen. / Darwi Odrade

23. Time does not count itself. You have only to look at a circle and this is apparent. / Leto II (The Tyrant)

24. A major concept guides the Missionaria Protectiva: Purposeful instruction of the masses. This is firmly seated in our belief that the aim of

25. The best art imitates life in a compelling way. If it imitates a dream, it must be a dream of life. Otherwise, there is no place where we ca

26. Uproot your questions from their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions! / Mentat Zensufi

27. Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. … / The Coda

28. Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior

29. No sweeteners will cloak some forms of bitterness. If it tastes bitter, spit it out. That’s what our earliest ancestors did. / The Coda

30. Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them. Oppose a religion with another religion only if your proofs (miracles) are ir

31. We walk a delicate line, perpetuating Atreides (Siona) genes in our population because that hides us from prescience. … / Archival Summary (

32. We witness a passing phase of eternity. Important things happen but some people never notice. … / Darwi Odrade

33. Spend energies on those who make you strong. Energy spent on weaklings drags you to doom (HM rule) Bene Gesserit Commentary: Who judges? / T

34. Ish yara al-ahdab hadbat-u. (A hunchback does not see his own hunch. – Folk Saying.) … / The Bashar Teg

35. Religion must be accepted as a source of energy. It can directed for our purposes, but only within limits that experience reveals. Here is t

36. Our household god is this thing we carry forward generation after generation: our message for humankind if it matures. The closest thing we

37. When are the witches to be trusted? Never! The dark side of the magic universe belongs to the Bene Gesserit and we must reject them. / Tylwy

38. Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. / The Coda

39. Making workable choices occurs in a crucible of informative mistakes. Thus Intelligence accepts fallibility. … / Darwi Odrade

40. Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. / Zensunni koan

41. Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. / The Zensunni Whip

42. Battle? There’s always a desire for breathing space motivating it somewhere. / The Bashar Teg

43. Do not be quick to reveal judgment. Hidden judgment often is more potent. It can guide reactions whose effects are felt only when too late t

44. Looked at one way, the universe is Brownian movement, nothing predictable at the elemental level. Muad’Dib and his Tyrant son closed the clo

45. What do Holy Accidents teach? Be resilient. Be strong. Be ready for change, for the new. Gather many experiences and judge them by the stead

46. When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious. Allow for surpris

47. There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves. / Darwi Odrade

48. Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. / The Zensunni Whip

The Road to Dune (1985)

Songs of Muad'Dib: The Poetry of Frank Herbert (1992)

House Atreides (1999)

House Harkonnen (2000)

House Corrino (2001)

Dune: A Whisper of Caladan Seas (2001)

Dune: Hunting Harkonnens (2002)

The Butlerian Jihad (2002)

Dune: Whipping Mek (2003)

The Machine Crusade (2003)

Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert (2003)

Dune: The Faces of a Martyr (2004)

The Battle of Corrin (2004)

Dune: Sea Child (2006)

Hunters of Dune (2006)

Dune: Treasure in the Sand (2006)

Sandworms of Dune (2007)

The Science of Dune (2007)

Paul of Dune (2008)

The Winds of Dune (2009)

Dune: Wedding Silk (2011)

Sisterhood of Dune (2012)

Mentats of Dune (2014)

Navigators of Dune (2016)

Dune: Red Plague (2016)

Dune: The Waters of Kanly (2017)

Dune: Blood of the Sardaukar (2019)

The Duke of Caladan (2020)

The Lady of Caladan (2021)

Dune: The Edge of a Crysknife (2022)

Dune: Imperial Court (2022)

The Heir of Caladan (2022)

Princess of Dune (2023)