# Dune ## Metadata * Author: [Frank Herbert](https://www.amazon.com/Frank-Herbert/e/B000APO5OM/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1) * ASIN: B00B7NPRY8 * ISBN: 0593438361 * Reference: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00B7NPRY8 * [Kindle link](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8) ## Highlights “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.” — location: [225](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8&location=225) ^ref-21046 --- “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.” — location: [280](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8&location=280) ^ref-21597 --- “The drug’s dangerous,” she said, “but it gives insight. When a Truthsayer’s gifted by the drug, she can look many places in her memory—in her body’s memory. We look down so many avenues of the past…but only feminine avenues.” Her voice took on a note of sadness. “Yet, there’s a place where no Truthsayer can see. We are repelled by it, terrorized. It is said a man will come one day and find in the gift of the drug his inward eye. He will look where we cannot—into both feminine and masculine pasts.” “Your Kwisatz Haderach?” “Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug…so many, but none has succeeded.” “They tried and failed, all of them?” “Oh, no.” She shook her head. “They tried and died.” — location: [305](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8&location=305) ^ref-25044 --- A world is supported by four things….” She held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing….” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!” — location: [622](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8&location=622) ^ref-38504 --- Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. — location: [2379](kindle://book?action=open&asin=B00B7NPRY8&location=2379) ^ref-26188 ---