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161 " Hard tasks need hard ways. "
― Frank Herbert , Dune
162 " He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask. "
163 " The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge. "
164 " The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training. "
165 " One moment of incompetence can be fatal. "
― Frank Herbert , Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
166 " Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes. "
167 " It could be a work of art among vendettas "
― Frank Herbert
168 " No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero "
169 " 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. "
170 " Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly. "
171 " Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention. "
― Frank Herbert , Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6)
172 " We will never forgive and we will never forget. "
173 " Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing. "
174 " Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "
175 " Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. "
― Frank Herbert , Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
176 " The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. "
177 " 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 ,
178 " Truth suffers from too much analysis. "
179 " If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual. "
― Frank Herbert , The Dosadi Experiment (ConSentiency Universe, #2)
180 " Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. "