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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 7

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Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

Knowing, Steps, Firsts

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

Government, Weapons

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.86, Penguin

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Real, Mistake, Rocks

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.113, Penguin

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Spices, Science Fiction, Sci Fi

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.183, Macmillan

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

Survival, Important, Form

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Philosophy, Irreverence, Way

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.276, Penguin

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

Life, Joy, Facts

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.80, Penguin

Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

Opportunity, Feelings, Guilt

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

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

Betrayal, Trying, Scream

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.34, Penguin

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Real, Reality, Thrive

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

Hypocrite, Rebel, Selfless

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.32, Penguin

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

Machinery, Ambiguous, Gross

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.175, Penguin

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

Diversity, Alive, Landscape

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.423, Penguin

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?

Thinking, World, May

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.42, Penguin

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

Love Life, Self, Ideas

Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Long, Justice, Use

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.421, Penguin

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Inspirational, Training, Lessons

"Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Believe, People, Training

Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Teaching, Ease, Failing

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

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Blood, Water, Politics

Journalism is the entertainment business.

Entertainment, Journalism, Entertainment Business

When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.

Fighting, Men, Thinking

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.260, Penguin

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

Balance, Care, Delicate

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.11, Penguin

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

Missing, Observing

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.50, Penguin

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Pay, Violence, Thrive

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.133, Penguin

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