Quotes from Frank Herbert

Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there staring out at you!

Soltanto gli sciocchi preferiscono il passato!

Band together behind the fire in the mouth of the cave, fellow tribesmen!

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life," Stilgar said

Mediante tu creencia en las singularidades granulares, deniegas todo movimiento… evolutivo o degenerativo. La creencia fija un universo granular y hace que ese universo persista. No puede permitirse que cambie nada porque de esa forma nuestro universo no moviente se desvanece. Pero se mueve por sí mismo cuando tú no te mueves. Evoluciona más allá de ti y ya no te resulta accesible.

Le fait de savoir que le piège existe équivaut au premier pas pour lui échapper.

Como todos los sacerdotes, aprendiste muy pronto a llamar herejía a la verdad.

McKie sensed her thoughts, her reactions. Jedrik: 'You cast your sperm upon the stream of time.' McKie: 'You enclose and nurture . . .' 'I cast/I nurture.' It was as though they looked at an object from opposite sides, aware belatedly that they both examined the same thing. 'We cast/we, nurture.' Obscuring layers folded away and McKie found himself in Jedrik's mind, she in his. Their thoughts were one entity.

out of prayers older than Adam

The future is a thing to be shaped

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred. —THE APOCRYPHA OF MUAD'DIB

Era possível comparar o infortúnio de um só com a agonia das multidões?

Life was always a reaction to pressures.

One: When they find a leader. This is the most volatile threat to the powerful; they must retain control of leaders. "Two: When the populace recognizes its chains. Keep the populace blind and unquestioning. "Three: When the populace perceives a hope of escape from bondage. They must never even believe that escape is possible!

Power attracts the psychotics. Always. That's what we have to avoid within ourselves.

How excellent! And if you handed one of them the complete scenario of his life, the unvarying dialogue up to his moment of death- what a hellish gift that's be. What other boredom! Every living instant he be replaying what he knew absolutely. No deviation. He could anticipate every response every utterance over and over and over and over and over and…

This moment is part of forever.

The fact that any Family in my Empire could so deploy its atomics as to destroy the planetary bases of fifty or more other Families causes some nervousness, true. But all of us possess precautionary plans for devastating retaliation. Guild and Landsraad contain the keys which hold this force in check. No, my concern goes to the development of humans as special weapons. Here is a virtually unlimited field which a few powers are developing.

It is your fate, forgetfulness. All of the old lessons of life, you lose and gain and lose and gain again.

Que sentidos nos faltam para que não consigamos ver um outro mundo a nossa volta?

soportarse a uno mismo podía llegar a ser la tarea más complicada de todo el universo.

As ideias são mais temíveis quando se tornam atos.

Povjesni?ari imaju veliku mo?, a neki od njih to i znaju. Oni ponovno stvaraju prošlost, mijenjaju?i je kako bi odgovarala njihovim vlastitim tuma?enjima. Pa tako mijenjaju i budu?nost.

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.