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“A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful,” Hawat had said.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 5 | Location 144-145 2020-09-18 23:35:32
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is
“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.”
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 12 | Location 225-227 2020-09-19 00:02:22
“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.”
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 17 | Location 280-282 2020-09-19 00:37:18
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind. This is the willow’s purpose.”
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 42 | Location 556-557 2020-09-22 00:54:07
A world is supported by four things….” 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!”
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 48 | Location 622-625 2020-09-22 01:00:03
She said the mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 50 | Location 645-646 2020-09-22 01:02:13
‘A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.’
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 50 | Location 646-647 2020-09-22 01:02:05
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 166 | Location 1941-1942 2020-09-29 00:31:43
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 205 | Location 2379-2382 2020-09-30 00:48:47
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 205 | Location 2379-2383 2020-09-30 00:48:53
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 366 | Location 4192-4193 2020-10-06 00:40:04
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 371 | Location 4239-4240 2020-10-06 18:32:19
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 423 | Location 4820-4821 2020-10-10 01:00:12
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.
<Dune>(Herbert, Frank) Highlight on page 466 | Location 5288-5289 2020-10-15 00:29:03