“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients… — frank herbert Copy Share Image
“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human… — 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 interface,… — 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
