Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Earth? Golden Age?" Stilgar was irritated and puzzled. Why would Paul wish to discuss myths from the dawn of time?” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The past may show the right way to behave if you live in the past, Stil, but circumstances change.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Maud’Dib could indeed, see the Future, but you must understand the limits of this power. Think of sight. You have eyes, yet… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is… — 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
“I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Come, come," the Baron said. "We don't have much time and pain is quick. Please don't bring it to this, my dear… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“I see us giving love to each other in a time of quiet between storms. It's what we were meant to do.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus,… — 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
