Quotes from Frank Herbert

We cannot have such inept chess players in our employ.

Se você acredita em determinadas palavras, acredita nos argumentos ocultos que carregam. Quando você acredita que alguma coisa é certa ou errada, verdadeira ou falsa, você acredita nos pressupostos por trás das palavras que expressam tais argumentos. Esses pressupostos geralmente são cheios de buracos, mas continuam muito preciosos para os que estão convencidos de sua veracidade.

I talk accumulated observations which tell me that the peaceful posture is the posture of the defeated. It is the posture of the victim. Victims invite aggression.

Their bodies, their clothes, and their faces described individual hells—the insucked breast of concealed terrors, the glittering hook of a jewel become substitute armor, the mouths were judgments full of frightened absolutes, cathedral prisms of eyebrows.

Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place. He causes that creature's wants to direct him to that place.

It is wise to have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

A paz exige soluções, mas nunca alcançamos soluções vivas. Apenas trabalhamos para chegar a elas. Uma solução fixa, por definição, é uma solução morta. O problema com a paz é que ela tende a punir os erros em vez de recompensar a lucidez.

Eylemlerin bir sonu vard?r ama baÅŸlang?c? yoktur; baz?lar? da baÅŸlar ama bitmez. Bu tamamen gözlemcinin nerede durduÄŸuna baÄŸl?d?r.

What you share in such companionship always prepares you for greater things. The haze of nostalgia covers their days among their sisters, making those days into something different than they were. That's the way today changes history. All contemporaries do not inhabit the same time. The past is always changing, but few realize it.

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Hangi duyulardan yoksunuz ki, etraf?m?zdaki bir baÅŸka dünyay? göremiyor ve duyam?yoruz?

Never to forgive—never to forget

Mentat, solve thyself, he thought.

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.

Putnam increased the first print run to 75,000 copies, more than any science fiction hardcover printing in history.

The freman are civil, educated and ignorant. They are not mad. They are trained to believe not to know. Believe can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

O futuro continua incerto e assim deve ser, pois é a tela na qual pintamos os nossos desejos. Desse modo, a condição humana sempre tem à frente uma tela maravilhosamente vazia. De nosso, temos somente este momento no qual nos dedicamos continuamente à presença sagrada que compartilhamos e criamos.

Well now, whose feint am I?

The strength of a woman can be boundless.

Awareness flowed into that timeless stratum where he could view time, sensing the available paths, the winds of the future…the winds of the past: the one-eyed vision of the past, the one-eyed vision of the present and the one-eyed vision of the future—all combined in a trinocular vision that permitted him to see time-become-space.

Jessica wondered what compulsion had brought her to uncover those two things first—the head and the painting. She knew there was something symbolic in the action.

Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.

We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance?