Title: Book III Quote Reflections
Course: Science Fiction: Dune > Section: Book III

Choose one of the quotes below from Book I of Dune. Everyone is allowed to post a discussion. Response should be a few paragraphs in length. Include in your post:

- The quote
- Its significance in the text
- How it applies to you or the real world
- Is there any advice implied in the quote? Is it good?

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. (p. 373)

It is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death. (p.380)

I am I because I am here. (p. 382)

When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. (p. 382)

[If someone] incites trouble, it is the fault of the authority for not foreseeing and preventing the trouble. (p. 387)

Give as few orders as possible. Once you’ve given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. (p. 387)

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest. (p. 391)

Their minds rejected what they could not comprehend or encompass. (p. 393)

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. (p. 408)

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it. (p. 422)

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. (p. 424)

Prophets have a way of dying by violence. (p. 425)