Quotes by Frank Herbert

Schools were started to train human talents... The Guild... emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs... politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.

It could be a work of art among vendettas

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Moods a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. Its not for fighting.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

We will not run, Paul said. Well move with dignity. Well do what must be done.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

“Without even the safety valve of dreaming, he focused his prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures, but with something more, an edge of mystery - as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum and sampled the winds of the future.”

“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”