Words matter. These are the best Frank Herbert Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
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.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
There is no escape – we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
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.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
