Quotes About Frank Herbert

My son has the Atreides sincerity... He has that tremendous, almost naive honor-and what a powerful force that truly is.

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't understand about an ecosystems is that it is a system…that's why the highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion," Leto said. "Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Ima trava okolo! I korenja okolo!" Jessica translated silently: "These are ashes! And these are roots!

The Fremen! They're paying the Guild for privacy, paying in a coin that's freely available to anyone with desert power—spice.

The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn't they?

You see, Count, I have the Emperor's prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me." The

The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the environment.

The attack by those who want to die — this is the attack against which you cannot prepare a perfect defense. — Human aphorism

Arrakis is a one-crop planet [...] One crop. It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings.

Bitterness I understand, the Duke said. But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and freedom to use them.

I come only to ask a simple question. Is Muad'Dib's death to be followed by the moral suicide of all men? Is that the inevitable aftermath of a Messiah?

Dune Messiah is the most misunderstood of Frank Herbert's novels. The reasons for this are as fascinating and complex as the renowned author himself. (Brian Herbert's Introduction)

You shall be known among us as Usul, the base of the pillar. This is your secret name, your troop name. We of Sietch

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?" Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. "We call that one muad'dib," Stilgar said. Jessica

He felt that his mentat faculties had been dulled, let out a long, shuddering breath. A psychic shadow passed over him. In the emotional darkness of it, he felt himself waiting for some absolute sound—the snap of a branch in a jungle.

and the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

Reason is valuable," he said, "only when it performs against the wordless physical background of the universe." Her

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even the hawks could appreciate these facts.

But this being has human shape, Gurney, and deserves human doubt.

Bitterness I understand," the Duke said. "But let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

Sex for pleasure, the enemy of religion, eh?

Before Jessica could answer, Chani said: "It is not possible that you have tasted the blessed water. You are outworlder and unprivileged.

Arrakis, the planet known as Dune, is forever his place.