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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 15

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The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Eye, Saws, Matter

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.51, Penguin

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

Belief, Shakes, Supreme

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.55, Penguin

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Well Known, Wells, Repression

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.328, Penguin

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

God, Men, Separation

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.16, Penguin

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.

Writing, Attention, Ifs

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

Training, Language, Delusion

"Whipping Star". Book by Frank Herbert, "Gowachin Aphorism"; p. 111, 1969.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Mind, Dying, Companion

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.

Fall, Hero, Hands

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.235, Macmillan

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

Bees, Enough

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

Father, Errors, Principles

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.243, Penguin

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

Tolerance, Limits, Wells

I am not the kind of person I want to be.

Want, Kind, Persons

Frank Herbert (2012). “Dune: The Gateway Collection”, p.591, Hachette UK

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Greatness, Feelings, Myth

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Mistake, Hero, Problem

"Dune Genesis". "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, (p. 72), July 1980.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

Men, Water, Flesh

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.191, Penguin

The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.

Oil, Water, Scarcity

"Dune Genesis". Essay in "Omni", Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 72, July 1980.

Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.

Running, Risk, Machines

Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Fall, Past, Air

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.75, Penguin

Every civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.

Wise, Wisdom, Block

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.28, Penguin

Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.

Growth, Amount

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.126, Penguin

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!"

Dirty, People, Leave Me Alone

"Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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.

Differences, Rabbits, Hitting

I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?

Hands, People, One Day

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.311, Penguin

Is evolution just another name for God?

Names, Evolution

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.12, Penguin

Money to a writer is time to write.

Writing

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