Frank Herbert Quotes about Past

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It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert

Happiness, Past, Waste

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

Frank Herbert

Believe, Past, Return

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.351, Penguin

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Frank Herbert

Past, Luck, Survival

Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well.

Frank Herbert

Exercise, Past, Fit

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Frank Herbert

Teaching, Past, History

Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.10, Penguin

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

Frank Herbert

Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

"Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.