Frank Herbert Quotes about Reality

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We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language

We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

Frank Herbert

Moving, Cutting, Reality

"The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

Frank Herbert

Ambition, Reality

Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.97, Penguin

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

Frank Herbert

Real, Reality, Thrive

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

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

Frank Herbert

Memories, Fall, Reality

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