Quotes from Frank Herbert

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

La sopravvivenza di se stessi, della specie, dell' ambiente, queste sono le cose che muovono gli esseri umani. Potete osservare come l'ordine d'importanza cambi nell'arco d'una vita. Quali sono le cose che suscitano una preoccupazione immediata a una certa età? Il clima? Lo stato della digestione? A lei o a lui importa davvero? Tutti quei vari tipi di fame che la carne sente e spera di soddisfare. Che altro può davvero importare?

Grave isto na memória, rapaz: um mundo é sustentado por quatro coisas... o conhecimento dos sábios, a justiça dos poderosos, a prece dos justos e a coragem dos bravos. Mas tudo isso de nada vale... sem um governante que conheça a arte de governar.

The people who can destroy a thing, they control it," Paul

Dad told me that you could follow any of the novel's layers as you read it, and then start the book all over again, focusing on an entirely different layer. At the end of the book, he intentionally left loose ends and said he did this to send the readers spinning out of the story with bits and pieces of it still clinging to them, so that they would want to go back and read it again. A neat trick, and he pulled it off perfectly.

man's flesh is his own and his water belongs to the tribe—and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Humans live best when each has his own place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person

the sunset. A violent calamity of color spilled over the sky as the sun dipped beneath the horizon.

Bene Gesserit Way, he opened his mind to Jacurutu, seeking to know nothing about it. Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature." "We live longer and observe more," he said. "I don't think it's quite that simple. Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

God created Arrakis to train the faithful. —FROM "THE WISDOM OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

With Sardaukar, you must scan them, scope them—both reflex and hard ray—cut off every scrap of body hair. And when you're through, be certain you haven't discovered everything.

Gli storici esercitano un grande potere, e alcuni di loro lo sanno. Essi creano il passato, cambiandolo per adeguarlo alle proprie interpretazioni. Così, cambiano anche il futuro.

stood up to get a better look at it. Paul leaned forward, staring at the machine. Scaled against the tiny projected

Paul stood alone now just into the ring, clad in the fighting trunks he'd worn under his stillsuit.

Our civilization could well die of indifference within it before succumbing to external attack. The

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us, do we?

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. —FROM "MUAD'DIB: THE NINETY-NINE WONDERS OF THE UNIVERSE" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

That's it, you see. I am not a leader nor even a guide. A god. Remember that. I am quite different from leaders and guides. Gods need take no responsibility for anything except genesis. Gods accept everything and thus accept nothing. Gods must be identifiable yet remain anonymous. Gods do not need a spirit world. My spirits dwell within me, answerable to my slightest summons.

Ar trebui s? existe o ?tiin?? a nemul?umirii. Oamenii au nevoie de suferin?e ?i de oprimare ca s?-?i dezvolte mu?chi psihici.

Why deify a man known to be flesh?

Some people never observe anything. Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything which might lift them out of that false serenity.

Piatra e grea ?i nisipul apas?, dar furia neghiobului e o povar? care le-ntrece.