Quotes from Frank Herbert

Kaybedince, iyi karar verme yeteneÄŸini de kaybetmiÅŸ olduk. Bugünlerde bir düÅŸman?n üstüne atlar gibi atl?yoruz kararlar?n üstüne...ya da bekleyip bekleyip ki bu da bir anlamda pes etmektir, baÅŸkalar?n?n kararlar?n?n bizi harekete geçirmesine izin veriyoruz. Bu ak?nt?n?n oluÅŸmas?n? saÄŸlayanlar?n bizler olduÄŸunu unuttuk mu?

The female sense of sharing originated as familial sharing-care of the young, the gathering and preparation of food, sharing joys, love and sorrows. Funeral lamentation originated with women. Religion began as a female monopoly, wrested from them only after its social power became too dominant. Women were the first medical researchers and Practitioners. There has never been any clear balance between the sexes because power goes with certain roles as it certainly goes with knowledge.

Oh, I don't imply that I've made my father's mistake and peered into the future with a glass of spice.

That girl! She was like a touch of destiny. He felt caught up in a wave, in tune with a motion that lifted all his spirits.

To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

I feed on your energy.

The aristocrat's unspoken duty—to teach, and sometimes by horrible example.

It's easy to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Thus spoke St. Alia-of-the-Knife: "The Reverend Mother must combine the seductive wiles of a courtesan with the untouchable majesty of a virgin goddess, holding these attributes in tension so long as the powers of her youth endure. For when youth and beauty have gone, she will find that the place-between, once occupied by tension, has become a wellspring of cunning and resourcefulness.

But the universe would not turn backward. It was a great engine projected upon the grey void of nonexistence. His knife, if it brought the deaths of the twins, would only reverberate against that void, weaving new complexities to echo through human history, creating new surges of chaos, inviting humankind to attempt other forms of order and disorder.

todos los peligros son valiosos si uno está preparado para afrontarlos.

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion. —Gowachin aphorism

The hair-splitters up there will welcome any point

Children of Dune is an exciting, vividly imagined novel. It is Frank Herbert at the top of his craft.

Technology, in common with many other activities, tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. Capital investment follows this rule, since people generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. —ASSESSMENT OF IX, BENE GESSERIT ARCHIVES

Can you collect chaos?" the ghola asked. "We Zensunni say: 'Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering.' What can you gather without gathering yourself?

They're not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.

Debería existir una ciencia del descontento. La gente necesita tiempos difíciles y de opresión para desarrollar sus músculos físicos. · —De Frases escogidas de Muad'Dib, por la princesa Irulan

Avere i primi, vaghi sospetti della propria mortalità, significa conoscere l'inizio del terrore; esser coscienti, oltre ogni dubbio, che si è mortali, significa aver conosciuto la fine del terrore.

He knew names and places, experienced emotions without number, reviewed data of innumerable unexplored crannies. There was time to probe and test and taste, but no time to shape.

What was it the pilgrims sought? Paul wondered. They said they came to a holy place. But they must know the universe contained no Eden source, no Tupile for the soul. They called Arrakis the place of the unknown where all mysteries were explained. This was a link between their universe and the next. And the frightening thing was that they appeared to go away satisfied…. What do they find here? Paul asked himself. (Dune Messiah Page 82)

the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

And Paul thought: Gurney's one of those the Reverend Mother meant, a supporter of worlds—"…the valor of the brave.