And the need to watch every drop of water puts all food production - yeast culture, hydroponics, chemavit, everything - under the strictlest surveillance. And I find it imparts a certain natural immunity to some of the most common poisons of the Assassins' Handbook. You breathe it and eat it in almost everything. There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. This is like single combat, Son, only on a larger scale - a feint within a feint within a feint. "Knowing where the trap is - that's the first step in evading it. You press the edge - thus, and the pages you're selected repel each other and the book opens." The book is held closed by the charge, which forces against spring-locked covers. It has its own magnifier and electrostatic charge system. Not a filmbook, but actually printed on filament paper. "It's a very old Orange Catholic Bible made for space travellers. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. "Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "I guess I'm not in the mood for it today," Paul said. "You are an apt pupil, none better, but I've warned you that not even in play do you let a man inside your guard with death in his hand." Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.' 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling." the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind. It is the attempt to see the light without knowing Darkness. To attempt an understanding of Muah'Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. "Yes, the one who can be at many places at once: the Kwisarz Haderach.
He will look where we cannot - into both feminine and masculine pasts." It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. "Yet, there's a place where no Truthsayer can see.
but only feminine avenues." Her voice took on a note of sadness. We look down so many avenues of the past. When a truthsayer's gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory - in her body's memory. "The drug's dangerous," she said, "but it gives insight. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.'" "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. "A human can overwite any nerve in the body." Quotes from the book Dune - Frank Herbert Generation Terrorists