Herbert Quotes
But that’s life right? It’s just a shitty hand of cards. But then maybe somebody pulls out an Ace, and somebody else gets a four, or a ten. It’s all in the draw and how you play it.
The universe is our picture. Only the immature imagine the cosmos to be what they think it is.
Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.
Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate
You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.
You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.
I don't speak, I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Most of our so-called thinking processes are devoted to finding excuses for going on believing as we already do.
I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?
There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?
He's taking the change well?" She asked.Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
A wise man once found peace in the practice of saying nothing, leaving the gossiper with no other choice but to fabricate gossip about a wise man saying nothing
Strange, how we often hate the ones who save us and love the ones that are like poison.
If you surrender, you have already lost. If you refuse to give up, though, no matter the odds against you, at least you have succeeded in trying.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.
When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.
...what happens tomorrow is the future but what happened yesterday is already part of on-going history...
To exist is to stand out, away from the background, " The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating… even awe-inspiring, but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.
It is only you, treading in the blessed path of peace and freedom, who can bring about the true regeneration of society, and with it the true happiness of your own lives.
If government half a century ago had provided us with all our dinners and breakfasts, it would be the practice of our orators today to assume the impossibility of our providing for ourselves.
A man's life consist not of the things he possess, nor Facebook likes and approval.But some of it damn sure consist of his favorite hobbies and love of girls with guns
Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.
