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“Truth suffers from too much analysis.
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
“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 quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
― Frank Herbert
“The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Do actions agree with words? There’s your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
“Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.”
― Frank Herbert
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We’re all in this beauty together!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
“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.”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
“Whether 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, Dune
“Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things…” she held up four big-knuckled fingers. “…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these things are as nothing…” She closed her fingers into a fist. “…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune
“Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It’s so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.”
― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.”
― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah