“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.” — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“One of the most terrible moments in a boy’s life,” Paul said, “is when he discovers his father and mother are human… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“There is no measuring Muad'Dib's motives by ordinary standards. In the moment of his triumph, he saw the death prepared for him,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“You have been educated in judgment, which is the essence of worship. Judgment always occurs in the past. It is past-thinking. Will,… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“This myth he'd made out of intricate movements and imagination, out of moonlight and love, out of prayers older than Adam, and… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. This every sister of the Bene… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory this way, but the moments of study… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day… — 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
