If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I was addressing the way a significant life extension has produced in some people, you especially, a profound knowledge of human nature.”… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We came from Caladan—a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“I will tell you this only once. Homosexuals have been among the best warriors in our history, the berserkers of last resort. They were… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“how inevitable it was that the aristocrat would refuse his final duty—which was to step aside and vanish into history.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“What we should have done was test the gift first. We should have probed for dangers. We were too bedazzled by it, though.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“The assumption that a whole system can be made to work better through an assault on its conscious elements betrays a dangerous ignorance. This… — Frank Herbert Copy Share
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
