Quotes from Frank Herbert

Beginnings are fragile things.

I hold at your neck the gom jabbar," she said. "The gom jabbar, the high-handed enemy. It's a needle with a drop of poison on its tip. Ah-ah! Don't pull away or you'll feel that poison.

How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.

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

No legal system can maintain justice unless every participant — magisters, prosecutors, Legums, defendants, witnesses, all — risks life itself in whatever dispute comes before the bar. Everything must be risked in the Courtarena. If any element remains outside the contest and without personal risk, justice inevitably fails. — Gowachin Law

La esperanza ofusca la observación.

Bilo koja staza koja sužava mogu?nosti u budu?nosti može postati smrtonosna klopka. Ljudi ne kr?e sebi put kroz labirint; oni pretražuju širok horizont ispunjen jedinstvenim pojavama.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

learned rapidly because his first training was in how to leam. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.

What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.

his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

?uvaj se staza koje sužavaju budu?e mogu?nosti. Takve staze odmi?u od beskona?nosti i navode te u klopke smrtnosti.

Nepoznato se u svakom trenutku nalazi posvuda uokolo. Tu treba tražiti znanje.

Paul crawled through the sphincter

The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.

The universe can be understood only by the wind.

you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? What is there around us that we cannot—

There's coffee for those who want it,' the Duke said.

Enclosures of any kind are a fertile breeding ground for hatred of outsiders

In all Things you must appear important. No minor decisions pass through your hands unless they are quiet acts called 'Favors' done for people whose loyalty can be earned.

Could it be, he wondered, that the oracle didn't tell the future? Could it be that the oracle made the future?

Kad se pretjerano koristi, ?ak se i odanost na kraju istroši.