Quotes from Frank Herbert

Za razumijevanje su potrebne rije?i. No neke stvari se ne mogu svesti na rije?i. A neke druge stvari se mogu doživjeti samo bez rije?i.

He was reminded that the more he ordered the weather controlled, the more there was that required control. Absolutes only brought him closer to vagaries.

The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

Ich habe eine ausgleichende Funktion wahrzunehmen, und muss gleichzeitig darauf achten, dass die individuelle Entwicklung des Einzelnen einen positiven Verlauf nimmt. Wenn ein Volk nicht aus individuellen Charakteren besteht, ist es kein Volk, sondern ein Mob.

we can say that Muad'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. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Bir insan? yaÅŸam?n?n bir saatinden mahrum etmekle, onu yaÅŸam?ndan mahrum etmek aras?nda yaln?zca bir ölçek fark? vard?r. Sonuçta ona kar?? ÅŸiddet uygulam??, onun enerjisini tüketmiÅŸ olursunuz.

The Duke felt in this moment that his own dearest dream was to end all class distinctions and never again think of deadly order.

Kynes stared at him, seeing the water-fat flesh. He spoke coldly: "You never talk of likelihoods on Arrakis. You speak only of possibilities.

There was a thick welling of blood that stopped almost immediately. Ultrafast coagulation, Jessica thought. A moisture-conserving mutation

Mapes obeyed, trembling. The eyes without whites stared at Jessica. "You are ours," she muttered. "You are the One." There came another sound of unloading in the entry. Swiftly, Mapes grabbed the sheathed knife, concealed it in Jessica's bodice. "Who sees that knife must be cleansed or slain!" she snarled. "You know that, my Lady!" I know it now, Jessica thought.

She looked at Paul's face, his eyes--the inward stare. And she knew where she had seen such a look before: pictured in records of disasters--on the faces of children who experienced starvation or terrible injury. The eyes were like pits, mouth a straight line, cheeks indrawn. It's the look of terrible awareness, she thought, of someone forced to the knowledge of his own mortality.

Are we a troop together or a band of savages?

And Jessica, noting the words and manner, caught the deeper implications in the phrase, "the body's water.

Fedaykin," Jessica said, reminding him of his old service to her family, "we who have been scorched know how to stand back to back.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present, and a waste to live in the future.

Ljudi najbolje žive kad svatko ima svoje mjesto, kad svatko zna kamo spada u shemi sustava i što može posti?i. Uništi to mjesto i uništio si osobu.

No tengo miedo. El miedo mata a la mente. El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino.

Nedostatak znanja priziva najve?e strahove.

Un pensamiento, sea o no expresado en palabras, es real y tiene los poderes de la realidad».

She hated the water then, inspired by the worm's fear. Water, once the spirit-soul of Arrakis, had become a poison. Water brought pestilence. Only the desert was clean.

La verdadera religión debe enseñar que la vida está repleta de alegrías gratas a los ojos de Dios, y que el conocimiento sin acción está vacío. Todos los hombres deben recordar que la enseñanza de una religión solo por medio de reglas y ejemplos ajenos es una completa mixtificación. Una enseñanza justa y correcta se reconoce con facilidad. Se intuye de inmediato, porque despierta la sensación de que algo se conoce desde siempre».

And he thought: Growing older is to grow more wicked.

Choose a good worm," she said, giving him the Fremen words of parting