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“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Still, one must ask: What is the son but an extension of the father? —from “Muad’Dib, Family Commentaries” by the Princess Irulan
Fremen?”
Fremen: inhabitants of Arrakis
“The Harkonnens sneered at the Fremen, hunted them for sport,
Harkonnens hunted Fremen for sport and dis not bother countiing them
“That’s part of the price you pay for Guild Security. There could be Harkonnen ships right alongside us and we’d have nothing to fear from them. The Harkonnens know better than to endanger their shipping privileges.”
Space Guild travel guarantees safe passage as Harkonnens would not endanger their travel privelidges
Caladan.
Caladan: Home planet of Paul, his mother and witch Jessica and the Duke Leto.
Command must always look confident, he thought. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.
07/11/2021: Not a bad way of putting it. Seems that even the most competent leaders have to hide doubt.
“Justice?” The Duke looked at the man. “Who asks for justice? We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die.
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.” —from “Collected Sayings of Muad’Dib” by the Princess Irulan
11/11/2021: or your mother. Either way to realise they have the same, or similar, failings to you is... depressing.
Paul started to speak, but the Duke cut him off, saying: “I have to have someone I can say these things to, Son.” He
11/11/2021: Even leaders have to be able to unburdem themselves sometimes , but they have to choose their confidant carefully.
the Law of the Minimum.” She heard the testing quality in his voice, said, “Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.”
Where Kynes leads, people follow, Jessica thought. He has told us he sides with Paul. What’s the secret of his power? It can’t be because he’s Judge of the Change. That’s temporary. And certainly not because he’s a civil servant.
15/11/2012: Even on a fictional planet, Civil Servants, and they are held in low esteem.
“I never could bring myself to trust a traitor,” the Baron said. “Not even a traitor I created.”
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”
23/11/2021: if you only rely on one area of knowledge you will be weak. Apply this as a axiom in your life
“One does not risk everything to settle a score prematurely,”
05/12/2021: wise words worth remembering!
“Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow—we’ve
05/12/2021: be slow to revenge.
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
“Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets before now,” his father said. “Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate them, to incorporate them into the system in her own way.”
“Be silent,” Stilgar commanded. “If a thing has merit, it’ll be.
We know also the harm that waiting extended too long can do to us. We lose our sense of purpose if the waiting’s prolonged.
Good men, even the new ones he hadn’t had time to test. Good men. Didn’t have to be told every time what to do.
“How
“He who can destroy a thing has the real control of it,”
“Worry saps the strength,”
And Muad’Dib
“Can you tell
He was warrior
They’d never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.
Muad’Dib from whom
they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
Paul cleared his throat,
APPENDIX I
When barrier dunes
knowledge without action is empty.
(This is the source of the Fremen saying: “Speed comes from Shaitan.”
they cleansed themselves of guilt easily because their everyday existence required brutal judgments (often deadly) which in a softer land would burden men with unbearable guilt.
A man’s flesh is his own and his water belongs to the tribe—and the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve but a reality to
experience.
