Dustin quoted Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Fear is the mind-killer.
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Fear is the mind-killer.
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something cannot emerge from nothing,’ he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable ‘the truth’ can be.
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
She had never heard such a chill voice.
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘What is money,’ Kynes asked, ‘if it won’t buy the services you need?’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘I’m morally tired.
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘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 by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘“I have been a stranger in a strange land,”’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘“And the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry land,”’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘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 by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
‘Hope clouds observation.’
— Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone—to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink—greetings!