Quotes from Frank Herbert

The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands.

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

Money to a writer is time to write.

What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Something cannot emerge from nothing.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Fear is the mind-killer…. I will face my fear.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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