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Frank Herbert Quotes | Quotes said by Frank Herbert

  • Frank Herbert Quote #1

    Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

    - from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan

  • Frank Herbert Quote #2

    There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #3

    When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #4

    A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #5

    A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #6

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

  • Frank Herbert Quote #7

    A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience...

    Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #8

    A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #9

    A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #10

    Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #11

    All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #12

    And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold . . . not bought, but sold.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #13

    At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #14

    Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #15

    Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #16

    But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #17

    But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #18

    But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #19

    Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #20

    Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #21

    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 Quote #22

    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.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #23

    Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change

  • Frank Herbert Quote #24

    Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #25

    Desperate people are the most dangerous.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #26

    Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #27

    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.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #28

    Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?

  • Frank Herbert Quote #29

    Don't give over all of your critical faculties to people in power, no matter how admirable those people may appear to be. Beneath the hero's facade you will find a human being who makes human mistakes. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero. And sometimes you run into another problem. It is demonstrable that power structures tend to attract people who want power for the sake of power and that a significant proportion of such people are imbalanced — in a word, insane.

  • Frank Herbert Quote #30

    Dorastac znaczy stawac sie bardziej nikczemnym

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