Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left… — 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
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“ There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions. — 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