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Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 9

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Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.

Answers, Sensible, Universe

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.339, Penguin

War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.

War, Cells, Sea

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.281, Penguin

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!

Fear, Trying, Looks

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.411, Penguin

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

Men, Finals, Moments

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.

Demise, Mortality, Ends

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

Inspirational, Love Is, Way

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Mistake, Data, Entrepreneur

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.320, Penguin

When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.

Determination, Fate, Thinking

Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Snakes, Agony, Skins

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.133, Penguin

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Enemy, Easier, Admire

FRANK HERBERT (1965). “DUNE”

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

Trying, Use, Radical

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.31, Penguin

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Memories, Fall, Reality

Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.366, Penguin

Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.

Tone, Comedy, Psychological

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.431, Penguin

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Criticism, Looks, Use

Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.224, Macmillan

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Inspirational, Business, Moving

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Reeds, Peril, Young

They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.

Violence, Quiet, Speak

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.170, Penguin

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

Taken, Use, Victim

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.183, Penguin

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Doors, Long, Violence

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.310, Penguin

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Pain, Animal, Might

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.16, Penguin

Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

Order, Raw Materials, Chaos

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.349, Penguin

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

Law, Understanding, Over You

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.166, Penguin

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

Self, People, Want

"Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

Believe, Boredom, Free Will

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

When strangers meet, great allowance should be made for differences of custom and training.

Differences, Training, Stranger

Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.130, Penguin

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