02UndatedThe people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
03UndatedWhether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
05UndatedGovernments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
06UndatedThe truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
07UndatedTo be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
08UndatedIrreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
10UndatedMy 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.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
13UndatedThe 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.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
15Undatedthe meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the deadFrank Herbert / quote ↗
16UndatedThen, 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.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
17UndatedThere is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
19UndatedWhen religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
20UndatedThey are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
21UndatedReligion 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.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
23UndatedAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
24UndatedIn 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.Frank Herbert / quote ↗
