Quotes from Frank Herbert

What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child." He spoke mechanically: "If only adults could relax like that.

Oricare ar fi gradul de exotism atins de civilizaÈ›ie, oricare ar fi dezvolt?rile existenÈ›ei È™i ale societ??ii sau complexitatea interfeÈ›ei om/maÈ™in?, exist? interludii de putere solitar?, în cursul c?rora evoluÈ›ia omenirii È™i viitorul ei depind de acÈ›iunile relativ simple ale anumitor indivizi.

Any delusions of Free Will he harbored now must be merely the prisoner rattling his cage. His curse lay in the fact that he saw the cage. He saw it!

I already have good administrators—uncorruptible, sagacious, philosophical and open about their errors, quick to see decisions.

A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become linked to the landscape with its plants and animals. This new existence requires a working knowledge of those multiplex and cross-linked events usually referred to as nature. It requires a measure of respect for the inertial power within such natural systems.

Ele fala da morte porque isso é necessário. É a tensão por meio da qual os vivos sabem que estão vivos.

they were non-thinkers, attaching themselves to any fancied power for the identity which this gave them. Without a reflection from her they were empty. Thus, they were dangerous.

Why do you think you could do to me what I will not do to you? That is not the way of interdependence." Her

He could see it stretching ahead of him, a time of relative quiet in a hidden sietch, a moment of peace between periods of violence.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion,' Leto said. 'Not to speak of its importance in philosophy.Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

And she had sung the walking song lovers shared on the sand, its rhythm like the drag of the dunes against the feet: "Tell me of thine eyes And I will tell thee of thy heart. Tell me of thy feet And I will tell thee of thy hands. Tell me of thy sleeping And I will tell thee of thy waking. Tell me of thy desires And I will tell thee of thy need.

In haste, MF.

the tender indignities of physical love, the sharing and communion of selves, the softness and the violence.

The masses of Arrakis will know that we work to make the land flow with water," his father said. "Most of them, of course, will have only a semimystical understanding of how we intend to do this. Many, not understanding the prohibitive mass-ratio problem, may even think we'll bring water from some other planet rich in it. Let them think anything they wish as long as they believe in us.

O sistema histórico de pilhagem e extorsão mútuas tem um fim aqui em Arrakis. Não se pode seguir roubando aquilo de que se precisa sem pensar naqueles que virão depois. As características físicas de um planeta estão escritas em seu registro econômico e político.

Cuanta más vida hay en un sistema, mayor es la cantidad de nichos que existen para preservar esta vida

What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction? —THE STOLEN JOURNALS

Then she heard Paul's voice, low and controlled, reciting the litany: "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see fear's path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

It is naive to expect any bureaucracy to take brilliant innovations and put them to good use. Bureaucracies ask different questions.

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

Religion is a source of energy," she said. "You must recognize this energy. It can be directed for your own purposes.

He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.

ignorance reduces the shock of some experiences