“Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily… — 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
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
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally… — 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
