Dune is a famous science fiction novel written by Frank Herbert and was published in 1965.
Dune novel tells the story of a man called Paul Atreides who is heir to a noble family tasked with ruling the desert planet Arrakis.
We have handpicked some of the top quotes from Dune book for you.
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Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
“Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Knowing where the trap is—that’s the first step in evading it.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
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Famous Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows – a wall against the wind.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“It’s easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
Quotes from Dune by Frank Herbert
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,” Tuek said. “You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Hope clouds observation.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Grave this on your memory, lad: 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 things 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!” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow’s life.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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 (quote from Dune).
“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It’s gone, but we remain.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
Top Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, ‘I am not the kind of person I want to be.’ It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“My father once told me that respect for 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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
Popular Dune Quotes by Frank Herbert
“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“He who controls the spice controls the universe.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong – faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it’s too late.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Fear is the mind-killer.” ~ Frank Herbert , Dune
“There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man – with human flesh.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Paradise on my right, Hell on my left and the Angel of Death behind.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“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.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.” ~ Frank Herbert (quote from Dune).
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