Quotes from Frank Herbert

If there is no enemy, one must be invented. The military force which is denied an external target always turns against its own people.

Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe.

HoÅŸnutsuzluk bilimi diye bir ÅŸey olmal?yd?. Ä°nsanlar ruhsal kaslar?n? geliÅŸtirmek için zor zamanlara ve s?k?nt?lara ihtiyaç duyar.

es una característica de los humanos que, cuando nos enfrentamos a nuestros problemas personales, las cosas más íntimas son las que mejor resisten el análisis de nuestra lógica. Tendemos a buscar excusas a nuestro alrededor, a acusar a todo y a todos, menos al verdadero problema que nos reconcome por dentro.

Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery - as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.

Un vehemente cataclismo de colores inundó el cielo mientras el astro desaparecía tras el horizonte.

Zulme dair hiçbir kokuyu sevmiyorum.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself—a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

The race knows its own mortality and fears stagnation of its heredity. It's in the bloodstream—the urge to mingle genetic strains without plan.

Women learned it at the hands of men; now men learn it at the hands of women.

You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will, free or otherwise, is concerned with the future. Thinking is the performance of the moment, out of which you use your judgment to modulate will. You are a convection center through which past prepares future. —Dwarf MacIntosh, Kelpmaster, from Conversations with the Avata

Each project ship must maintain its coefficient of frustration," went the private admonition. "Frustration must come from both human and mechanical sources." They

The cleansed mind makes decisions in the presence of unknowns and without cause and effect.

Jessica stopped beside him, said: "What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.

Paul strode through the main entrance with Gurney Halleck and Stilgar a pace behind. Their escort fanned out into the Great Hall, straightening the place and clearing an area for Muad'Dib. One squad began investigating that no sly trap had been planted here.

We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.

We came from Caladan - a paradise world for our form of life. 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.

They thought of frustration as a threshold, a factor to heighten awareness. It

Korkmamal?y?m, korku ak?l katilidir. Korku toptan yok oluÅŸu getiren küçük ölümdür. Korkumla yüzleÅŸeceÄŸim. Üzerimden ve içimden geçmesine izin vereceÄŸim. Ve geçip gittiÄŸi zaman, geçtiÄŸi yolu görmek için iç gözümü ona çevireceÄŸim. Korkunun gittiÄŸi yerde hiçbir ÅŸey olmayacak. Yaln?zca ben kalaca??m.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin – only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

If I can't laugh at myself I'm really lost

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A