Frank Herbert Quotes
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
