Dzieło
Heretycy Diuny
Frank Herbert
Dzieci Diuny
Frank HerbertFrank Herbert słynne cytaty
„Blichtr płynie z miasta, mądrość z pustyni.”
Wellington Yueh do Paula (na Kaladanie), Paul do Pardota Kynesa (przyjęcie w pałacu).
Diuna
Frank Herbert cytaty
„Umysł rozkazuje ciału i ono jest posłuszne. Umysł rozkazuje sobie samemu i natrafia na opór.”
Lady Jessika Atryda (spotkanie z Szadout Mapes).
Diuna
Leto tłumacząc dlaczego jego armia składa się z kobiet
Bóg Imperator Diuny
„Smutne jest rozstanie z przyjaciółmi; miejsce to tylko miejsce.”
Hawat do Paula (na Kaladanie), Paul (noc w filtrnamiocie).
Diuna
rozmowa na temat wierności oficerów Sardaukarów po między Baszarem Tajkeikiem Księciem Farad'n i Lady Wensicją.
Dzieci Diuny
„Kiedy nie lubisz tego, co robisz, rób to lepiej.”
Kapitularz Diuną
„(…) pokój zachęca do agresji, stając się tym samym zarzewiem wojny. Paradoks…”
Baszar Tajkeik do Księcia Farad'n o nauczaniu Bene Gesserit o wojnach.
Dzieci Diuny
Wariant: Ludzie rodzą się podatni na tę najtrwalszą i najbardziej osłabiającą chorobę intelektu: okłamywanie samego siebie. Najlepszy z możliwych światów, tak jak i najgorszy, z niej właśnie czerpią koloryt. O ile jesteśmy w stanie ustalić, nie istnieje naturalna odporność na tę chorobę. Wymagana jest ciągła czujność.
„Bogactwo to narzędzie wolności, ale pogoń za nim to droga do niewolnictwa.”
Bóg Imperator Diuny
„Nie potrzebujesz słów. Swoim życiem przemawiasz wprost do zmysłów.”
Hwi Nori wyznając miłość Leto
Bóg Imperator Diuny
Heretics of Dune
Frank Herbert: Cytaty po angielsku
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
Źródło: Chapterhouse: Dune
“A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating”
As quoted in Shoptalk: learning to write with writers (1990), edited by Donald Morison Murray<!-- Cook Publishers -->
General sources
Kontekst: A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, 'Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.' There's no difference on paper between the two.
Dune Genesis (1980)
Kontekst: In the beginning I was just as ready as anyone to fall into step, to seek out the guilty and to punish the sinners, even to become a leader. Nothing, I felt, would give me more gratification than riding the steed of yellow journalism into crusade, doing the book that would right the old wrongs.
Reevaluation raised haunting questions. I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.
“No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.”
Dune Genesis (1980)
Kontekst: No matter how finely you subdivide time and space, each tiny division contains infinity.
But this could imply that you can cut across linear time, open it like a ripe fruit, and see consequential connections. You could be prescient, predict accurately. Predestination and paradox once more.
The flaw must lie in our methods of description, in languages, in social networks of meaning, in moral structures, and in philosophies and religions — all of which convey implicit limits where no limits exist. Paul Muad'Dib, after all, says this time after time throughout Dune.
Dune Genesis (1980)
Kontekst: Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. … Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.
"Science Fiction and a World in Crisis" in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor
General sources
Kontekst: The current utopian ideal being touted by people as politically diverse (on the surface, but not underneath) as President Richard M. Nixon and Senator Edward M. Kennedy goes as follows — no deeds of passion allowed, no geniuses, no criminals, no imaginative creators of the new. Satisfaction may be gained only in carefully limited social interactions, in living off the great works of the past. There must be limits to any excitement. Drug yourself into a placid "norm." Moderation is the key word…
"Science Fiction and a World in Crisis" in Science Fiction: Today and Tomorrow (1974) edited by Reginald Bretnor
General sources
Kontekst: By the time we awaken faintly to the awareness that we have been socially conditioned, we find ourselves so indoctrinated that it's difficult, if not impossible, to break the old patterns … Survival pressures demanding that we evolve, grow, and change, however, continue to proliferate. We don't want to change, but the floodgates open abruptly and we are overwhelmed.
Crisis!
“It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.”
Dune Genesis (1980)
Kontekst: Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. … Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.
Dune Genesis (1980)
Kontekst: Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem.
It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane. … Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
It is the systems themselves that I see as dangerous.
“It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.”
Źródło: General sources, Chapterhouse Dune (1985)
Kontekst: All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Źródło: Dune
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
Wariant: Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.
Źródło: Dune
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
Źródło: Children of Dune
Wariant: It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Źródło: Dune
"The Plowboy Interview: Frank Herbert", in Mother Earth News No. 69 (May/June 1981)
General sources
“The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
Źródło: Children of Dune
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
Źródło: Chapterhouse: Dune
