Dune (Dune #1)

by Frank Herbert

“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.”

instinct for rightness.

in her body’s memory.

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: “The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.” —FROM “MUAD’DIB, FAMILY COMMENTARIES” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.”

language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don’t hear just with your ears.

‘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 senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known. —FROM “MANUAL OF MUAD’DIB” BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN