Quotes from Frank Herbert

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history. Show me someone who says, "Something must be done!" and I will show you a head full of vicious intentions that have no other outlet.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

She saw and yet did not see the evening's banked colors across meadow and river. She heard and yet did not hear the

It's very difficult convincing the young of anything. They're born knowing so much.

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

disks of ambient color tossed on an emerald freshet.

There is a delightful myth about the design of Onn I foster and promote the myth. It is said that once there lived a people whose ruler was required to walk among them once a year in total darkness, without weapons or armor. The mythical ruler wore a luminescent suit while he made his walk through the night shrouded throng of his subjects. And his subjects--they wore black for the occasion and were never searched for weapons.

Si siempre me comporto como es debido sin tener en cuenta lo que me cueste suprimir mis propios deseos, eso es lo único que quedará de mí.

There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual

Universul e al lui Dumnezeu. El este un singur lucru, un tot de la care pornind se pot identifica toate separaÈ›iile. ViaÈ›a trec?toare, inclusiv acea via?? înzestrat? cu raÈ›iune È™i conÈ™tiin?? pe care noi o numim inteligen??, nu deÈ›ine decât un mandat fragil asupra unei p?rÈ›i oarecare din tot.

They wouldn't understand. In the desert, they were endlessly desert. Growing things performed no green ballet for them.

Once more the drama begins.

fear is the mind-killer

How the mind gears itself for its environment

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained. —THE COMMENTARIES

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

Hrvaš li se sa snovima? Boriš li se sa sjenama? Osje?aš li se kao da spavaš? Vrijeme je isteklo. Život ti je ukraden. Potrošio si ga na sitnice, ti žrtvo vlastitih ludosti.

They were so many pink trumpet mouths yammering amidst a flutter of colorful clothing and banners.

What history touches the woman in the rice paddy driving her water buffalo ahead of her plow while her husband is off somewhere, most likely a conscript, carrying a weapon?

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

He said, 'I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice?

For all of those years since birth they had been as one person. But their plan demanded now that they undergo a metamorphosis, going their separate ways into uniqueness where the sharing of daily experiences would never again unite them as they once had been united.

Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws. No, it was a question of fairness, a concept that went much deeper. The people upon whom judgment was passed must feel the fairness of it.