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ebb9819
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If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
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Frank Herbert |
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46b78ad
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My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
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truth
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Frank Herbert |
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b3e0524
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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truth
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Frank Herbert |
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212a089
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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.
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life
dune
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Frank Herbert |
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dfc9b1f
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The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
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Frank Herbert |
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c474a23
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What does a mirror look at?
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herbert
dune
frank
scifi
mirror
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Frank Herbert |
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2d133b5
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Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.
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spacing-guild
rulership
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Frank Herbert |
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d8ff6da
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Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?
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innovation
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Frank Herbert |
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7a5b80a
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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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learning
life-experience
experience
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Frank Herbert |
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1cbf789
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Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him.
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kynes
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Frank Herbert |
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63cc9e5
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.
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depression
leadership
strategy
despair
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Frank Herbert |
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9e015fd
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Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.
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Frank Herbert |
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e25c149
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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
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dissonance
repression
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Frank Herbert |
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bd39b77
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To know a thing well, know its limits; Only when pushed beyond its tolerance will its true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
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Frank Herbert |
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62ad9a5
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When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom."
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Frank Herbert |
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00c63ee
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Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
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Frank Herbert |
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f8ad833
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A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.
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dune
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Frank Herbert |
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88afc77
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We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
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Frank Herbert |
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23edb6f
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The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
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Frank Herbert |
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6f8f912
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
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Frank Herbert |
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a892fa3
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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'..
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Frank Herbert |
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f6b48d0
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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
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fear
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Frank Herbert |
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05b5303
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.
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Frank Herbert |
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c736648
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This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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Frank Herbert |
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3bf6983
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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's 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.
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Frank Herbert |
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c3c2e19
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Knowing where the trap is--that's the first step in evading it.
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evasion
trap
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Frank Herbert |
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369668e
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You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They've discovered they're a people. They're awakening.
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revolution
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Frank Herbert |
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6792fb7
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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.
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nature
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Frank Herbert |
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8ba0bad
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And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
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Frank Herbert |
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ad8dd4c
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Law is the ultimate science.
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Frank Herbert |
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adce73e
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Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations."
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tyranny
power
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Frank Herbert |
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00310f8
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When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles
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Frank Herbert |
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8240a95
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This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here--the screen of the magi..
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Frank Herbert |
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48901f6
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Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
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song
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Frank Herbert |
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75a4b86
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Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is so..
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Frank Herbert |
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e52da3d
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Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
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Frank Herbert |
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517d416
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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.
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Frank Herbert |
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abb809b
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Mankind has only one science... its the science of discontent.
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Frank Herbert |
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cdd9c15
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Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
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Frank Herbert |
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01eeb96
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What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
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Frank Herbert |
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525954c
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It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
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present
past
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Frank Herbert |
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325e6e9
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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?"
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Frank Herbert |
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a34f048
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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
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Frank Herbert |
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28b3797
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They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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Frank Herbert |