Quotes from Frank Herbert

The eye that looks ahead to the safe course is closed forever

Cada hombre es una pequeña guerra.

Bila je to stvar vjere. Stvari su bile takve, jer ih je vjernik odabrao takvima vidjeti.

With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.

Is there some frontier? Idaho asked. Is there some frontier where I could go and never again be part of this? If there is to be any frontier, you must help me create it, Leto said.

Sen Caladan'? sevdin Yitik hükümdar?n?n yas?n? tuttun... Ama ?st?rap öÄŸretti ki Silemez yeni â??klar Ebedi hayaletleri.

Surely you know bureaucracies always become voracious aristocracies after they attain commanding power... Ministers of this, Great Honored Matres of that, a powerful few at the top and many functionaries below. They already are full of adolescent hungers. Like voracious predators, they never consider how they exterminate their prey. A tight relationship: Reduce the numbers of those upon whom you feed and you bring your own structure crashing down.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.' That

Everywhere there is peace, Paul thought. Everywhere … except in the heart of Muad'dib.

All gods have this problem, Hwi. In the perception of deeper needs, I must often ignore the immediate ones. Not addressing immediate needs is an offense to the young. Could you not reason with her and... Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Un tempo gli uomini dedicavano il proprio pensiero alle macchine, nella speranza che esse li avrebbero liberati. Ma questo consentì ad altri uomini di servirsi delle macchine per renderli schiavi.

suggested they were descending uneven terrain. A trail? The

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. "Something cannot emerge from nothing," he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable "the truth" can be. —FROM "CONVERSATIONS WITH MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So

Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

For every veteran who returns with a new sense of destiny ('I survived; that must be God's purpose') more come home with barely submerged bitterness, ready to take 'the easy way' because they saw so much of it in the stresses of war.

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness, Paul thought.

Así habló Santa Alia del Cuchillo: «La Reverenda Madre debe combinar las artes de seducción de una cortesana con la intocable majestad de una diosa virgen, manteniendo estos atributos en tensión tanto tiempo como subsistan los poderes de su juventud. Pues una vez se hayan ido belleza y juventud, descubrirá que el lugar intermedio ocupado antes por la tensión se ha convertido en una fuente de astucia y de recursos infinitos.» De «Muad'Dib

Il n'est probablement pas de révélation plus terrible que l'instant où vous découvrez que votre père est un homme... fait de chair.

the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience

He had taken his place in a universe he did not want, wearing flesh that did not fit.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those things who come after.

In the moonlight and reflection off gray stone, Paul saw a small figure in Fremen robes, a shadowed face peering out at him from the hood, and the muzzle of one of the projectile weapons aimed at him from a fold of robe. "I am Chani, daughter of Liet.