The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
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
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
Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the… — 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
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. — 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
The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose… — 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
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid… — 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
