Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing….” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”

world being the sum of many things—the people, the dirt, the growing things, the moons, the tides, the suns—the unknown sum called nature, a vague summation without any sense of the now.

“If wishes were fishes we’d all cast nets,”

“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”