A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We have eternity, beloved." "You may have eternity. I have only now." "But this is eternity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us? — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. — 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
