Here goes a simple collection of sentences which I've detected while reading Dune. Either profound or touching on personal level. In chronological order, after finishing Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune and God Emperor of Dune.
The mystery of life is not a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
Greatness is a transitory experience.
I'm like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness — until one day the ability to feel is forced into them.
Belief can be manipulated, only knowledge is dangerous.
Coming back to the desert was not so much a homecoming as a turning around to see what had always been there.
Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way you will achieve everything.
To compete is to prepare for failure.
Better the complexities one thought he knew than the complexities which defied understanding. Better the now than the future of a dream
Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
The dog remembers the wolf.
History is a constant race between invetion and catastrophe.
14th October 2024