It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. — 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
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct. — 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
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
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
“Liberal bigots are the ones who trouble me most. I distrust the extremes. Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties…and the striving for… — 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
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims… — 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
“He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live… — 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
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between… — 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
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
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
“A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future.… — 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
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 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
“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
“if I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. There's no doubt of it. I just don't… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“It occurred to her that mercy was the ability to stop, if only for a moment. There was no mercy where there… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space. — Frank Herbert Copy Share
