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 Image
There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration. — 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
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
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And… — 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
