Life Quotes by Frank Herbert

Each life creates endless ripples.

— Frank Herbert

Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

— Frank Herbert

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

— Frank Herbert

“To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.”

— Frank Herbert

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

— Frank Herbert

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

— Frank Herbert

“Life is not an option, it is a gift. Death is the option.”

— Frank Herbert

The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

— Frank Herbert

If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this…

— Frank Herbert

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

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

— Frank Herbert

“Life improves the closed system’s capacity to sustain life. Life—all life—is in the service of life.”

— Frank Herbert

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

— Frank Herbert

“The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost…

— Frank Herbert

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

— Frank Herbert

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

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe…

— Frank Herbert

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

“Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away.…

— Frank Herbert

“A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter…

— Frank Herbert

Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the…

— Frank Herbert

“Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence…

— Frank Herbert

“He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon…

— Frank Herbert

“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/ human…

— Frank Herbert

“Abandon certainty! That's life's deepest command. That's what life's all about. We're a probe into the unknown, into the uncertain. Why can't…

— Frank Herbert

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled…

— Frank Herbert

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the…

— Frank Herbert

A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men...…

— Frank Herbert

“Life improves the closed system's capacity to sustain life. Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients…

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Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is…

— Frank Herbert

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

“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become…

— Frank Herbert

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

— Frank Herbert

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind.

— Frank Herbert

The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

— Frank Herbert

“Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of…

— Frank Herbert

“The body, learning a thing is good for it, interprets the flavor as pleasurable—slightly euphoric. And, like life, never to be truly…

— Frank Herbert

Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater…

— Frank Herbert

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve…

— Frank Herbert

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of…

— Frank Herbert