ORIGINAL ENGLISH PASSAGE
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our ideas changed. We feel threatened by such demands. “I already know the important things!” we say. Then Changer comes and throws our old ideas away.
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Knowing and being open to learning are not the same attitude. The final novel’s changing conditions require established institutions to accept this difference.
Dune Saga Collection ↗
Frank Herbert
Chapterhouse: Dune · Chapter epigraph on change
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