Frank Herbert Quotes
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.
Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin.
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
