“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. — 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
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve… — 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
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A sing-song of shouts filled the air as the merchants tried to attract buyers. Their voices had that end of the workday… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“You have to appreciate life before you want to preserve it," she said. "And it's the survivors who maintain the most light… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human… — 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
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We came from Caladan—a paradise world for our form of life. There existed no need on Caladan to build a physical paradise… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface,… — 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
