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Frank Herbert Famous Quotes & Sayings
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One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place.
The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life. I live now for my young Duke and the daughter yet to be. She
But attack can take strange forms. And you will remember the tooth. The tooth. Duke Leto Atreides. You will remember the tooth. -Dr.Yueh
We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.
The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable - slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly synthesized.
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
A bad administrator is more concerned with reports than with decisions. He wants the hard record which he can display as an excuse for his errors.
Memories which fastened him to places his flesh had never known presented him with answers to questions he had not asked.
Chaos is no surprise. It has predictable characteristics. For one thing, it carries away order and strengthens the forces at the extremes.
The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power - spice.
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
The more I find out, the more I realize that I don't know what's going on."
"How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said.
"How fortunate that you have discovered the way of wisdom," Leto said.
Sheeana would learn in time that any person who lived through the decision to die evolved a new emotional balance. Fears were transitory.
Communal/managed economics have always been more destructive of their societies than those driven by greed
There was pain in him - like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
Any conversation is a unique jazz performance. Some are more pleasing to the ears, but that is not necessarily a measurement of their importance
Moral decisions are always easy to recognize," Odrade said. "They are where you abandon self-interest.