These are my top highlights from the book! I always type up my favorite bits to keep the good stuff fresh in my mind. Enjoy!
I didn’t initally plan to take notes while reading Dune, but as I got into the book I found it hard not to write down some interesting tidbits that I stumbled across.
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.
Hope clouds observation
He says: Your offer of a meeting is refused. I have oftentimes met your treachery and this all men know.
Shield your son too much, and he’ll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.
Humans are almost always lonely.
A ruler must learn to pursuade and not to compel. He must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.
It is easy to kill the uprooted plant, especially when you put it in hostile soil.
Why do I let pride drive such words out of me? This is not the way I was trained.
Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen.
A plan depends as much upon execution as it does upon concept.
If you only rely on your eyes, your other sense weaken.
Bribes are dangerous, they have a way of growing larger and larger.