A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man -… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work… — 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
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
Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here:… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was… — 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
