Quotes from Frank Herbert

This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.

El miedo es la pequeña muerte que conduce a la destrucción total. Afrontaré mi miedo. Permitiré que pase sobre mí y a través de mí. Y cuando haya pasado, giraré mi ojo interior para escrutar su camino. Allá donde haya pasado el miedo ya no habrá nada. Solo estaré yo.

You cannot back into the future

The censure of your peers? But what if your peers balked at no obscenity? You could do anything.

Arrakeen had become an ungenerous place, a contained place, unreasonable and self-righteous in its harsh outlines.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. —WORDS OF MUAD'DIB BY PRINCESS IRULAN

Não há a menor distinção entre deuses e homens: as duas coisas se misturam sem cerimônia.

Memoria nu recreeaz? niciodat? realitatea. Memoria doar reconstituie. ?i orice reconstituire modific? originalul, devenind ea îns??i un cadru de referin?? extern, în mod inevitabil deficitar.

Paul felt that he waited for some private signal from his sister. It could be any action or word, something of wizardry and mystical processes, an outward streaming that would fit him like an arrow into a cosmic bow. This instant lay like quivering mercury in his awareness.

We try to copy these patterns in our lives and our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move toward death.

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation which produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.

O fenômeno da presciência é mal compreendido até mesmo por seus iniciados.

Perhaps you are the Kwisatz Haderach. Sit down, little brother, here at my feet." "I prefer to stand." "Your mother sat at my feet once." "I'm not my mother." "You hate us a little, eh?

I wanted only to disappear like a jewel of trace dew caught by the morning.

He said that you were the ultimate artist at probing the soul, your own soul first.

I felt that I could remember a past which had never been

The person with life-and-death decisions to make must make decisions or remain caught in the pendulum. Paul had always said that stasis was the most dangerous of those things which were not natural. The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

A shower of sweet odors from a garden roof nibbled at his senses, but no floral perfume could roll back that fallen moon.

You cannot go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition the users to employ each other the way they employ machines.

My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.