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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 11

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The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Errors, Principles, Persistent

War is the most readily available form of chaos.

War, Chaos, Form

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.188, Penguin

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Initiative

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

Lessons, Teach, Shows

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Real, Steps, Logic

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

Quality, Dignity, Breathe

If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

Emotion, Deny, Internals

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.238, Penguin

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

Children, Educational, Dull

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.109, Penguin

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

Want, Should, Company

"God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Tree, Feelings, Fruit

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

Past, Balance, Atrocities

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.110, Penguin

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Tasks, May, Endure

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Acceptance, Government, Names

"The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Attitude, People, Giving

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

Attitude, Princess, Knives

"Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

Men, Differences, Violence

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.148, Penguin

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

Trying, Youth, Sprint

Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

Enemy, Worst

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.28, Penguin

It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

Ignorance, Dangerous

Frank Herbert (2007). “The White Plague”, p.68, Macmillan

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Anger, Men, Self

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

God, Science, Men

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Gathering, Chaos, Collecting

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.106, Penguin

No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.

Lonely, Simple, Civilization

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.132, Penguin

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Truth, Light, Knowing

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.20, Penguin

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

Believe, True Or False, Assumption

Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

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