Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’

“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. It’s not for fighting.”

And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

it’s well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

“Grief is the price of victory,”