Quotes from Frank Herbert

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late." Paul

short-term expediency always fails in the long term.

The implied methods would permit construction of entirely new computers reduced in size and basic complexity by a factor of at least a thousand.

Is that the name you wish, Muad'Dib?" Stilgar asked. "I am an Atreides," Paul whispered, and then louder: "It's not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad'Dib?" "You are Paul-Muad'Dib," Stilgar said. And

He thinks that by repeating he creates some kind of truth.

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.

We change our past by what we learn.

The sandy juice of his fears could not be avoided.

You must be always hungry and thirsty." The Baron caressed his bulges beneath the suspensors. "Like me.

Think of all those experiences, the wisdom they'd bring. But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

These are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumphs; a good deed is its own reward; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness . . .

Freedom is a lonely state.

Misterio de la Vida no es un problema que hay que resolver, sino una realidad que hay que experimentar.

We bribe the Guild with a monstrous payment in spice to keep our skies clear of satellites and such that none may spy what we do to the face of Arrakis." She

Don't let a woman's fears cloud your mind.

wormfaced, crawling, sand-brained piece of lizard turd!

The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind.

If one delays old age or death by the use of melange or by that learned adjustment of fleshly balance which you Bene Gesserits so rightly fear, such a delay invokes only an illusion of control. Whether one walks rapidly through the sietch or slowly, one traverses the sietch. And that passage of time is experienced internally.

I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

Maker—their word for worm

forever seeking, forever prepared and forever unready.

Peace punishes mistakes without rewarding brilliance.

All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.