Quotes from Frank Herbert

We open windows, Bell, and let in common sense. Even hilarity. Puts more serious matters in perspective.

My Fish Speakers are a temporary army in every sense. While they can be violent and vicious, women are profoundly different from men in their dedication to battle. The cradle of genesis ultimately predisposes them to behavior more protective of life. They have proved to be the best keepers of the Golden Path.

It is said…." What a curious speech mannerism they have here. If they only knew what it reveals about their dependence on superstitions.

Bir s?rr? gizlemenin en iyi yolu, insanlar? yan?t? zaten bildiklerine inand?rmakt?r. O zaman soru sormazlar.

It shields evil behind walls of self-righteousness which are proof against all arguments against the evil.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

Ahora el silencio era tan profundo que casi sentía el fluir de la lechosa y azulada luz de luna sobre los saguaros centinelas y los matojos espinosos.

There would remain then a physical fact, a bit of flesh which had been sent off to the Tleilaxu. There was only one way for it to be sent, of course, on a heighliner. We of the Guild naturally know every cargo we transport. Learning of this one, would we not think it additional wisdom

O conhecimento não tem serventia sem um propósito, mas o propósito é aquilo que constrói os muros que nos encerram.

Do we not live in the shadow of the most dangerous creation the universe has ever seen? Dangerous creation… Their own mother refuses to live on the same planet with them!

If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

We know what we have ahead of us—work. We've been trained for it. We've some experience in it. We know what the rewards are and the alternatives are clear enough.

What better way to destroy me than to sow suspicion of the woman I love?

The target of the Jihad was a machine-attitude as much as the machines, Leto said. Humans had set those machines to usurp our sense of beauty, our necessary selfdom out of which we make living judgments. Naturally, the machines were destroyed.

as had happened so many times in the past, for every problem solved a new one was added. Beneath

She is the virgin-harlot—witty, vulgar, cruel, as destructive in her whims as a coriolis storm.

action is illusory. Like appointing a committee to study a problem. The more people on the committee, the more preconceptions applied to the problem.

famed intelligence had become a kind of shrewdness, relying mostly on past observations and past decisions rather than on what she saw in the immediate present.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Bir düÅŸünce ifade edilse de edilmese de, varl??? gerçektir ve güç bar?nd?r?r.

My Fremen call themselves "Children of the Moon," he thought.

El regalo es la bendición de quien lo hace»

Curiosity unsatisfied tended to create its own answers. Guesses were often more dangerous than facts.