all taken from frank herbert’s 1965 book.
“a beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.”
“a popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.”
“parting with friends is a sadness.”
“a place is only a place.”
“i must not fear. fear is the mind-killer.”
“i will face my fear. i will permit it to pass over me and through me.”
“where the fear has gone there will be nothing. only i will remain.”
“you’ve heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap?”
“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.”
“hope clouds observation.”
“once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.”
“it is the attempt to see the light without knowing darkness. it cannot be.”
“the willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows — a wall against the wind.”
“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.“
“you fight when the necessity arises — no matter the mood!”
“if wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets.”
“what senses to we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us.”
“any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.”
“from the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
“let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.”
“i must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds.”
“he shall know your ways as if born to them.”
“greatness is a transitory experience. it is never persistent.”
“without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
“there is no escape — we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
“is it defeatist or treacherous for a doctor to diagnose a disease correctly?”
“we tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us.”
“people need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
“what do you despise? by this you are truly known.”
“a stone is heavy and the sand is weighty ; but a fools wrath is heavier than them both.”
“science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.”
“to save one from a mistake is a gift of paradise.”
“may thy knife chip and shatter.”
“the concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”
“anger is one thing, violence another.”
“it’s easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.”
“to accept a little death is worse than death itself.”
“you cannot back into the future.”
“the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
“you are always a little less than an individual.”
“how often is it that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
“the eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever.”
“the power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.”
“expect only what happens in the fight.”
“riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing.”
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