Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune Chronicles, #6)

by Frank Herbert

“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!”

“Rules are often an excuse to ignore compassion.”

Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements people made in search of personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shall not question! We break that commandment daily. Our work is the harnessing of human imagination to our deepest creativity.