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Title: Dune Authors: Frank Herbert Category:#supplementals Number of Highlights: 20 Date: 2022-07-17 Last Highlighted: **
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“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 me I will turn to see fear’s path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
“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.”
“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.”
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.”
Tags:#perspective
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals, and a people reverts to a mob.”
Tags:#leadership
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.
Tags:#favorite,#perception,#strategy
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!”
Tags:#virtues,#favorite,#leadership
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh.
Tags:#parenting
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
Tags:#perception,#progress
“Give as few orders as possible,” his father had told him…once…long ago. “Once you’ve given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
Tags:#leadership,#work
“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.”
Tags:#stress,#perspective,#problem_solving
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. “Something cannot emerge from nothing,” he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable “the truth” can be.
Tags:#perception
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Tags:#perception
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
Tags:#stoic
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
“She said a ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. She said he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men.”
Tags:#leadership
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Tags:#anger,#perception
“Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. And, naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate.”
Tags:#growth,#perspective