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Quotes About Mystery

Paul crouched at the sphincter
~ Frank Herbert
A universe of surprises is what I pray for
~ Frank Herbert
Paul studied the pilgrims around him, suddenly envious of their intentness, their air of listening to truths he could not hear. It seemed to him that they gained something here which was denied to him, something mysteriously healing.
~ Frank Herbert
Mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience.
~ Frank Herbert
Your Kwisatz Haderach?" "Yes, the one who can be many places at once: the Kwisatz Haderach. Many men have tried the drug…so many, but none has succeeded." "They tried and failed, all of them?" "Oh, no." She shook her head. "They tried and died.
~ Frank Herbert
There is a fifth force which shaped religious belief, but its effect is so universal and profound that it deserves to stand alone. This is, of course, space travel—and in any discussion of religion, it deserves to be written thus: SPACE TRAVEL!
~ Frank Herbert
Forces that we cannot understand permeate our universe. We see the shadows of those forces when they are projected upon a screen available to our senses, but understand them we do not.
~ Frank Herbert
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. —THE ZENSUNNI WHIP
~ Frank Herbert
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la Reverenda Madre.
~ Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. So I quoted the First Law of Mentat at her: 'A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with
~ Frank Herbert
They'll call me…Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way.
~ Frank Herbert
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.
~ Frank Herbert
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)
~ Frank Herbert
Lord, are you telling me that you are not really a god? I am telling you that I do not play hide-and-seek with death.
~ Frank Herbert
Mutlak bilgiye sahip ç?kmak gaddarl?kt?r. Bilgi, belirsizliÄŸin k?y?s?ndaki sonsuz bir macerad?r.
~ Frank Herbert
Forget mystery and accept love. There's no mystery about love. It comes from life.
~ Frank Herbert
Slowly, Mapes reached into the neck of her dress, brought out a dark sheath. A black handle with deep finger ridges protruded from it. She took sheath in one hand and handle in the other, withdrew a milk-white blade, held it up. The blade seemed to shine and glitter with a light of its own. It was double-edged like a kindjal and the blade was perhaps twenty centimeters long.
~ Frank Herbert
Tibana was an apologist for Socratic Christianity, probably a native of IV Anbus who lived between the eighth and ninth centuries before Corrino, likely in the second reign of Dalamak. Of his writings, only a portion survives from which this fragment is taken: "The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.
~ Frank Herbert
The unknown brings its own worries,' he said.
~ Frank Herbert
She sleeps in the Waters of Life." Chani
~ Frank Herbert
Se dice que un día vendrá un hombre que, con el don de la droga
~ Frank Herbert
It was the Fremen who took off in that captured 'thopter, Hawat thought. He deliberately sacrificed himself to get that carrier. Great Mother! What are these Fremen?
~ Frank Herbert
the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience
~ Frank Herbert