All Frank Herbert Quotes
- The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life… Bodies
- He who controls the spice controls the universe. Controls
- She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought. Black
- The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man… Consumed
- Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy… Act
- To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to… Alive
- If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. All
- Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating… Alike
- The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience. Experience
- I am not the river I am the net. Inspirational
- The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he… All
- the sleeper must awaken Awaken
- Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond… Always One
- There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. Discover
- Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment. Except
- the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead Begins
- The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness… Direction
- In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches. Both
- Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories. Categories
- Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus… All
- There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. Chords
- Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings… Arrakis
- What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger. Danger
- Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. Boat
- Education is no substitute for intelligence. Education