Dune: The inspiration for the blockbuster film (The Dune Sequence Book 1)

“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

Kynes turned, and Paul noted the hard line of the

I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

It was another of the essential ingredients that she felt her son needed: people with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. They could be wielded like a sword to win back Paul’s place for him.

“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.”

she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death—the drive to seek immortality through progeny.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future.