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From Quotes by Frank Herbert
- A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a…
- Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
- Something cannot emerge from nothing.
- Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until…
- The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit…
- Truth suffers from too much analysis.
- Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
- Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of…
- My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said.…
- You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
- I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to…
- Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.
- One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
- Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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