FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action in mind. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The human mind, as is the case with the mind of any animal, is a resonator. It responds to resonances in the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.” Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured. “For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When I was writing Dune there was no room in my mind for concerns about the book's success or failure. I was… — 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
