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

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?

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. (p. 8)

...we can say that Muad’Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad’Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. (p. 65-66)

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice. We make it here on Arrakis—win or die...let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them. (p.87)

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh. (p. 102)

There is no escape—we pay for the mistakes of our ancestors. (p. 146)

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it, but it’s a human trait that wen we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that’s really chewing on us. (p. 154)

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. (p. 162)