Quotes from Frank Herbert

Only a fool imagines he's beyond the reach of his prejudices.

Zaten vereceÄŸim ÅŸeyleri çalmak m? istiyorsun?

Think you carefully on this Bene Gesserit proverb and perhaps you will see: "Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Go right to the depth of their uncertainty, dispose of that, and all the rest must follow.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man—with human flesh. —FROM "COLLECTED SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise or a paradise of the mind—we could see the actuality all around us. And the price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life—we went soft, we lost our edge.

I remember salt smoke from a beach fire And shadows under the pines— Solid, clean…fixed— Seagulls perched at the tip of land, White upon green… And a wind comes through the pines To sway the shadows; The seagulls spread their wings, Lift And fill the sky with screeches. And I hear the wind Blowing across our beach, And the surf, And I see that our fire Has scorched the seaweed.

În ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe oameni, întrebarea este nu cîÅ£i pot supravieÅ£ui în cadrul sistemului, ci ce fel de existen?? va fi posibil? pentru cei ce vor supravieÅ£ui.

La influencia de la política en el seno de una religión ortodoxa es inevitable. La lucha por el poder impregna el adiestramiento, la educación y la disciplina de una comunidad ortodoxa. Debido a esa presión, los jefes de una comunidad así deben afrontar inevitablemente un claro dilema interior: sucumbir al más completo oportunismo como precio para mantener su poder o arriesgarse al autosacrificio en nombre de la ética ortodoxa.

Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,' " Paul quoted.

Ali u istini je uvijek sadržana dvozna?nost rije?i kojima se ona izražava.

Te lupti cu vise? Te certi cu umbre? Te misti ca intr-un somn adanc? Timpul a trecut. Viata ti s-a luat. Te-ai amarat cu fleacuri. Esti victima nesabuintei tale.

All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time.

You will address me as Sire or my Lord," Paul said.

The Baron could see the path ahead of him. One day, a Harkonnen would be Emperor. Not himself, and no spawn of his loins. But a Harkonnen. Not this Rabban he'd summoned, of course. But

Not at all, Lady Fenring said. She turned, looking up at the tiers around them. And the Baron noted the line of her neck- a truly lovely flowing of muscles- like a young boy's.

It could be a work of art among vendettas

Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.

Misterul vie?ii nu este o problem? care trebuie rezolvat?, ci o realitate care se cere tr?it?.

extinct…the animal destroys and does not produce…animal

We are here to remove a primary weapon from the hands of disputant religions. That weapon—the claim to possession of the one and only revelation.

Le véritable bonheur, c'était cela. La possibilité de s'arrêter, ne serait-ce que pour un moment.

Nikad ne pokušavaj razložno razgovarati s ljudima koji vjeruju da su u pravu.

There was the feeling in him then that his body had become the manifestation of some power he could no longer control. He had become a non-being, a stillness which moved itself. At the core of the non-being, there he existed, allowing himself to be led through the stress of his city, following a track so familiar in his visions that it froze his heart with grief.