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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ab2bbce | Color streamed into a toe of darkness testing the sand. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b338d8b | Inflection is the adjective of language. It carries the subtleties of delight and horror, the essence of culture and social process. | Frank Herbert | ||
| d54836b | Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 158f1f1 | Beginnings are such delicate times. | wisdom | Frank Herbert | |
| e555d28 | Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat. It | Frank Herbert | ||
| cde921d | The Fremen have a simple, practical religion," he said. "Nothing about religion is simple." | nothing practical religion simple | Frank Herbert | |
| 26fc974 | There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace--those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, in the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush or the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comf.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 60b86af | People want order, this kind or some other. They sit in the prison of their hungers and see that war has become the sport of the rich. That's a dangerous form of sophistication. It's disorderly. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 979ab86 | Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura." | bravura cultivate leader loyalty | Frank Herbert | |
| 062b048 | When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature's wants to direct him to that place. | Frank Herbert | ||
| aa1d5f3 | Remember your philosopher's doubts, Miles. Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e62f6f1 | Growing older is to grow more wicked. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 19c2853 | Mood's a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood. | fight love mood necessity | Frank Herbert | |
| 35d39d6 | How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ed8d8f9 | One of the most terrible moments in a boy's life," Paul said, "is when he discovers his father and mother are human beings who share a love that he can never quite taste. It's a loss, an awakening to the fact that the world is there and here and we are in it alone. The moment carries its own truth; you can't evade it. I heard my father when he spoke of my mother. She's not the betrayer, Gurney." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7137309 | Bir zamanlar, insanlar dusunme isini makinelere devretmis, boylece ozgurlesmeyi umut etmislerdi; ama bu, makinelere sahip baska insanlarin onlari kolelestirmesine yol acti sadece. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7ecc56e | Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. --The Coda | Frank Herbert | ||
| 0db1689 | Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy. | cynicism doubt greater heresy | Frank Herbert | |
| 0e41e32 | Hittite law emphasized restitution rather than revenge. Humankind lost a certain useful practicality when it chose the other Semitic response--never to forgive and never to forget. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 64a07d8 | There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 7c4faf4 | I knew Frank Herbert for more than thirty-eight years. He was a magnificent human being, a man of great honor and distinction, and the most interesting person at any gathering, drawing listeners around him like a magnet. To say he was an intellectual giant would be an understatement, since he seemed to contain all of the knowledge of the universe in his marvelous mind. He was my father, and I loved him deeply. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 64cf1d8 | Warfare leaves a residue of 'eat drink and be merry' that often leads inexorably to moral breakdown. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 8174d0d | For them, 'mektub al mellah', as the Fremen say." "The thing was written with salt," Irulan translated." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6ed9bbd | My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought. | heritage leadership legacy mortality parenthood | Frank Herbert | |
| adc3776 | The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"--which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. --FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 12ebdc6 | How would we flood village and city with our information? The people must learn how well I govern them. How would they know if we didn't tell them? | media propaganda | Frank Herbert | |
| 562b703 | What's a gom jabbar? | Frank Herbert | ||
| ea2e789 | The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand. | knife tactics | Frank Herbert | |
| c4492be | We shouldn't have tried to create new symbols," he said. We should've realized we weren't supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief, that we weren't supposed to stir up curiosity about God. We are daily confronted by the terrifying instability of all things human, yet we permit our religions to grow more rigid and controlled, more conforming and oppressive. What is this shadow across the highway of Divine Command? It is a war.. | religion | Frank Herbert | |
| 79f25f9 | Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul's face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 135b649 | Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him. | Frank Herbert | ||
| e10c51d | What do you despise? By this are you truly known. -- | Frank Herbert | ||
| 3144dfd | Our civilization appears to've fallen so deeply into the habit of invasion that we cannot even obey a simple order of the Imperium without the old ways cropping up. | Frank Herbert | ||
| b3b5efb | There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man--with human flesh. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 5d5c938 | This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6dace3a | We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 791445e | What a dolt my father sends me for weaponry," Paul intoned. "This doltish Gurney Halleck has forgotten the first lesson for a fighting man armed and shielded." Paul snapped the force button at his waist, felt the crinkled-skin tingling of the defensive field at his forehead and down his back, heard external sounds take on characteristic shield-filtered flatness. "In shield fighting, one moves fast on defense, slow on attack," Paul said. "At.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 6e27f90 | I guess I'm not in the mood for it today," Paul said. "Mood?" Halleck's voice betrayed his outrage even through the shield's filtering. "What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises--no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting." | Frank Herbert | ||
| 4668869 | Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. 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. | frank herbert | ||
| 466e1fc | Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person. | Frank Herbert | ||
| 70a7284 | The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows--a wall against the wind. This is the willow's purpose." Paul" | Frank Herbert | ||
| 600a3d7 | We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane. | insanity religion | Frank Herbert | |
| 27d0c5a | Governments may rise and fall for reasons which appear insignificant, Prince. What small events! An argument between two women . . . which way the wind blows on a certain day . . . a sneeze, a cough, the length of a garment or the chance collision of a fleck of sand and a courtier's eye. It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which.. | Frank Herbert | ||
| ccc7e13 | Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this qualit.. | Frank Herbert |