“We shouldn’t have tried to create new symbols,” he said. We should’ve realized we weren’t supposed to introduce uncertainties into accepted belief,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Belief fixes a granular universe and causes that universe to persist. Nothing can be allowed to change because that way your non-moving… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Have you noticed, Stil, how beautiful the young women are this year?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
