Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

There should be a word for memories that deny themselves.

But wisdom tempers love, doesn’t it? And it puts a new shape on hate.