Quotes from Frank Herbert

Para los demás, diremos que Muad'Dib aprendió rápidamente porque lo primero que le enseñaron fueron los fundamentos del aprendizaje. Y la primera lección, la certeza de que podía aprender. Es perturbador descubrir que mucha gente cree que no puede aprender, y que más gente aún cree que aprender es difícil.

Leto stood in the foyer of his house, studying a note by the light of a single suspensor lamp. Dawn was yet a few hours away, and he felt his tiredness. A Fremen messenger had brought the note to the outer guard just now as the Duke arrived from his command post

Cuando religión y política viajan en el mismo carro, los viajeros piensan que nada podrá detenerles en su camino... Su movimiento es acelerado… rápido y más rápido. Dejan a un lado todos los obstáculos, y no piensan que un precipicio se descubre siempre demasiado tarde.

Parting with people is a sadness; a place is only a place.

But wisdom tempers love, doesn't it? And it puts a new shape on hate. How

The sandtrout," he repeated, "was introduced here from some other place. This was a wet planet then. They proliferated beyond the capability of existing ecosystems to deal with them. Sandtrout encysted the available free water, made this a desert planet . . . and they did it to survive. In a planet sufficiently dry, they could move to their sandworm phase.

Ä°nsan, eski ac?lar?ndan, bir y?lan?n derisinden s?yr?ld??? gibi s?yr?lmal?d?r...yaln?zca yenilerini oluÅŸturmak ve onlar?n bütün s?n?rlamalar?n? kabul etmek için. Yönetimler için de durum böyledir...

Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?

La paz exige soluciones, pero nunca llegamos a alcanzar soluciones mientras vivimos; solo trabajamos para intentar alcanzarlas. Una solución fija es, por definición, una solución muerta. El problema con la paz es que tiende a castigar los errores en lugar de premiar los logros.

When your actions describe a system of evil consequences, you should be judged by those consequences and not by your explanations. It is thus we should judge Muad'Dib.

Be deaf! You do not need to hear or, hearing, you do not need to remember. How soothing it is to forget. And how dangerous

spannungsbogen"—which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. —

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They're organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations. I, however, have limitations. In my desire to provide an ultimate protection for my people, I forbid a constitution.

By your belief in singularities, in granular absolutes, you deny movement, even the movement of evolution! While you cause a granular universe to persist in your awareness, you are blind to movement. When things change, your absolute universe vanishes, no longer accessible to your self-limiting perceptions. The universe has moved beyond you. —FIRST DRAFT, ATREIDES MANIFESTO, BENE GRESSERIT ARCHIVES

On the Funeral Plain we learned to despise the men of the communities.

For proper government, the tribe must have ways to choose men whose lives reflect the way a government should behave.

Kendi ölümlülüÄŸünden ÅŸüphelenmek, dehÅŸetin baÅŸlang?c?n? bilmektir; ölümlü olduÄŸunu reddedilemez bir ÅŸekilde öÄŸrenmek, dehÅŸetin sonunu bilmektir.

A great burden for one word, Lord. Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

There had been so many things to learn. Arrakis would be a place so different from Caladan that Paul's mind whirled with the new knowledge. Arrakis—Dune—Desert Planet.

And now he saw that he had a wealth of data few such minds ever before had encompassed.

I have little to do with how you'll meet tomorrow, Gurney Halleck. I can only help you meet today.

We have created a monster — enormously valuable and even useful yet extremely dangerous. Our monster is both beautiful and terrifying. We do not dare use this monster to its full potential, but we cannot release our grasp upon it. — Gowachin assessment of the Dosadi experiment

She had quoted a Bene Gesserit proverb to him: "When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movement becomes headlong—faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thought of obstacles and forget that a precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.

A time to keep and a time to cast away; a time for love and a time to hate; a time of war and a time of peace.