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- 001
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
- 002
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
- 003
The human requires a background grid through which to see his universe…focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid…
- 004
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.
- 005
You’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There’s an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
- 006
“A human can override any nerve in the body.”
- 007
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.
- 008
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind.
- 009
To attempt an understanding of Muad’Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.
- 010
Humans must never submit to animals.
- 011
Humans are almost always lonely.
- 012
Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.
- 013
Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things… the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave.
- 014
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.
- 015
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- 016
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
- 017
Polish comes from the cities; wisdom from the desert.
- 018
From water does all life begin.
- 019
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.
- 020
Even dangerous facts are valuable if you’ve been trained to deal with them.
- 021
Knowing where the trap is—that’s the first step in evading it.
- 022
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
— St. Augustine - 023
There are worse things than dying, you know—even for an entire people.
- 024
And how easy it is to kill the uprooted plant. Especially when you put it down in hostile soil.
- 025
Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
- 026
Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
- 027
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
- 028
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
- 029
Command must always look confident. All that faith riding on your shoulders while you sit in the critical seat and never show it.
- 030
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.
- 031
The gift is the blessing of the giver.
- 032
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.
- 033
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.
- 034
There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
- 035
Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
- 036
It’s a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.
- 037
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
- 038
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife—chopping off what’s incomplete and saying: ‘Now, it’s complete because it’s ended here.’
- 039
“People are the true strength of a Great House.”
- 040
“Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.”
- 041
“Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.”