Quotes from Frank Herbert

Todas las rebeliones son corrientes y extremadamente aburridas. Todas están copiadas del mismo modelo, y todas se parecen la una a la otra. Su fuerza motriz es la adicción a la adrenalina y el deseo de adquirir poder personal. Todos los rebeldes son pequeños aristócratas.

Nimic nu-i pierdut pentru totdeauna. Totul se întoarce dup? o vreme, dar s-ar putea s? nu recunoÅŸti forma schimbat? care revine.

He felt anew the hyperillumination with its high-relief imagery of time, sensed his future becoming memories

Storms beget storms. Rage begets rage. Revenge begets revenge. Wars beget wars.

Para Pardot Kynes, el planeta no era más que una expresión de la energía, una máquina movida por un sol.

The dark rectangle of a doorway appeared on his right - black in black: Otheym's house, Fate's house, a place different from the ones around it only in the role Time had chosen for it. It was a strange place to be marked down in history.

These are the realities of this universe and they must be faced regardless of how you feel about them. You cannot fend off such realities with words. They will come at you in their own wordless way and then, then you will understand what is meant by "life and death." Understanding this, you will be filled with joy.

And what have they created?" Taraza asked. "Only the image of evil stupidity?" "Act stupid long enough and you become stupid

How soon this child must assume his manhood, Halleck thought. How soon he must read that form within his mind, that contract of brutal caution, to enter the necessary fact on the necessary line: 'Please list your next of kin.

Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.

BaÅŸlang?çlar! Hayat bunlardan ibaret iÅŸte! YaÅŸam var olduÄŸu sürece, her son bir baÅŸlang?çt?r. Ä°nsanl???n sürdürülmesi s?ras?nda vuku bulan hiçbir ölümün tam bir baÅŸar?s?zl?k olmamas? bu yüzdendir. DoÄŸumun bizi bu kadar etkilemesi bu yüzdendir. En trajik ölümün gencin ölümü olmas? bu yüzdendir.

The world is for the living. Who are they? We dared the dark to reach the white and warm. She was the wind when the wind was in my way. Alive at noon, I perished in her form. Who rise from the flesh to spirit know the fall: The word outleaps the world and light is all. —THEODORE ROETHKE (HISTORICAL QUOTATIONS: DAR-ES-BALAT)

It is fate, Nayla thought. It is God's will. They were the same thing. A

He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Souvenirs of memory must be only that. Things to be taken up and fondled occasionally for evocation of past joys. No joy can be permanent. All is transient. This, too, shall pass away applies to all of our living universe.

Balance, it's what distinguishes people from a mob.

At the Baron's elbow walked Feyd-Rautha. His dark hair was dressed in close ringlets that seemed incongruously gay above sullen eyes. He wore a tight-fitting black tunic and snug trousers with a suggestion of bell at the bottom. Soft-soled slippers covered his small feet.

Muad'Dib gave us a particular kind of knowledge about prophetic insight, about the behaviour which surrounds such insight and its influence upon events whcih are seen to be on line. (That is, events which are set to occur in a related system which the prophet reveals and interprets.) As has been noted elsewhere, such insight operates as a peculiar trap for the prophet himself. He can become the victim of what he knows — which is a relatively common human failing.

mendicant mystic

aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class—whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy. —POLITICS AS REPEAT PHENOMENON: BENE GESSERIT TRAINING MANUAL

Uproot your questions from the their ground and the dangling roots will be seen. More questions!

On my arrival I was told to come to this place at this time. That is what I know." The least thing that is known shall govern your acts. This was the course of evidence for the Gowachin. McKie's response put a legal burden on his questioner.

Frank Herbert warned young people not to trust government, telling them that the American founding fathers had understood this and had attempted to establish safeguards in the Constitution.

The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity," he said. "They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.