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“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
“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, Dune
“What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
― Frank Herbert
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“When 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, Dune
“It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Hope clouds observation.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
― Frank Herbert
“Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Governments, 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.
- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“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, Dune