Frank Herbert Quotes
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The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.
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FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.
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If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
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Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.
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Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?
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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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The past is no farther away than your pillow.
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Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
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Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
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Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."
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When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
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What is the son but an extension of the father?
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If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.
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Truth suffers from too much analysis.
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Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
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Caution is the path to mediocrity.
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There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.
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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!"
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A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
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We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
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All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
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The successful writer listens to himself.
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The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation
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Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.
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Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
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