#dune quotes

[kamaandhallie]

Dune has a lot of great quotes about AI:

"What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger."

“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.”

Keep in mind, this was written back in the 60s.

[ravenoffthecliff]

what do you despise? by this are you truly known.

-frank herbert, from "dune"

[muaddibstyleguide]

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[dunechapterquotes]

No bitter stench of funeral-still for Muad'dib. No knell nor solemn rite to free the mind From avaricious shadows. He is the fool saint, The golden stranger living forever On the edge of reason. Let your guard fall and he is there! His crimson peace and sovereign pallor Strike into our universe on prophetic webs To the verge of a quiet place—there! Out of bristling star-jungles: Mysterious, lethal, an oracle without eyes, Catspaw of prophecy, whose voice never dies! Shai-hulud, he awaits thee upon a strand Where couples walk and fix, eye to eye, The delicious ennui of love. He strides through the long cavern of time, Scattering the fool-self of his dream. -The Ghola's Hymn (From Dune Messiah)

[summerofsteroid]

“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.”

― Frank Herbert, Dune

[pflaumenratte]

jessica sensed amusement from alia.

“my brother’s ghanima is annoyed with me,” alia said in her half-lisp.

jessica marked the term alia used to refer to harah—ghanima. in the subtleties of the fremen tongue, the word meant “something acquired in battle” and with the added overtone that the something no longer was used for its original purpose. an ornament, a spearhead used as a curtain weight.

harah scowled at the child. “don’t try to insult me, child. i know my place.”

i can't stop thinking about this episode and how disgusting it is that paul, knowing full well the meaning, still named his daughter that.

it’s no coincidence that it was harah who protested against this name when it was given.

what is it like to live your whole life with a name that means "spoils of war"?

[dream-this-nightmare-over]

“I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father’s rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.”

Children of dune by Frank Herbert, pg. 382.

[brettesims]

“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. A process that cannot be understood by stopping it. We must move with the flow of the process. We must join it. We must flow with it. Let go.” ~ film: Dune