All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.'… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The person who takes the banal and ordinary and illuminates it in a new way can terrify. We do not want our… — 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
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
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences. — 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