“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled… — 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
“Earth? Golden Age?" Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future.… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Time can also be a place… Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The… — 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
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Militant missionary religions can share this illusion of the " proud past, ' but few understand the ultimate peril to humankind-that false… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties…and the striving for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.” — 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
