Quotes from Frank Herbert

Power attracts the corruptible. Absolute power attracts the absolutely corruptible. This is the danger of entrenched bureaucracy to its subject population.

Superb accuracy in water measurement, Jessica thought. And she noted that the walls of the meter trough held no trace of moisture after the water's passage. The water flowed off those walls without binding tension. She saw a profound clue to Fremen technology in the simple fact: they were perfectionists.

Cehalet ile bilginin, vahÅŸilik ve kültürün kesiÅŸmesi... ölülerimize gösterdiÄŸimiz sayg?yla baÅŸlar.

Individual human experience is not the overriding control factor in human behavior. The cellular social pattern dominates.

when you think you know something, that is a most perfect barrier against learning?

Beware of the truth, gentle Sister. Although much sought after, truth can be dangerous to the seeker. Myths and reassuring lies are much easier to find and believe. If you find a truth, even a temporary one, it can demand that you make painful changes.

Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism

The slave makes an awful master

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear.

BOOK THREE THE PROPHET No woman, no man, no child ever was deeply intimate with my father.

Alzó cuatro nudosos dedos—: la erudición de los sabios, la justicia de los poderosos, las plegarias de los justos y el coraje de los valerosos. Pero eso no vale nada... —Cerró los dedos en un puño— sin un gobernante que conozca el arte de gobernar.

Teg boiled it down to an essence: If only one person followed such guiding principles, this was a better universe.

Facing your fears robs them of their power

Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.

Uno no debe arriesgarlo todo por liquidar prematuramente una cuenta

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Cualquier camino, si se sigue hasta el fin, no conduce exactamente a ningún lugar. Escalad tan sólo un poco la montaña para comprobar si es una montaña. Desde la cima de la montaña, no podréis ver la montaña.»

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns—endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Our gods should mature as we mature.

Control the coinage and the courts—let the rabble have the rest.

O poder costuma isolar aqueles que o detêm em demasia. Por fim, acabam perdendo o contato com a realidade... e tombam.

Sje?anje nikada ne obnavlja stvarnost. Ono je samo preure?uje. Sva ta preure?enja mijenjaju original, postaju?i na taj na?in vanjski okviri za preporuke koje neizbježno brzo propadaju.

For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.