1975 Quote by Frank Herbert Download Open image ““Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.”” — Frank Herbert ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare 1975 Emotion Reason Scytale
“I suffered immensely. Then it passed away. I cannot repeat an emotion. No one can, except sentimentalists.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“She did not know why it seemed to her so tragic to cry in her sleep.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“Sometimes we choose to be blindfolded with the love of life. Putting emotions before reason.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“I had always thought that sorrow was the most exhausting of the emotions. Now I knew that it was anger.” — Helen Garner Copy Share Image
“Her emotions were so raw that the hated tears were always just below the surface, waiting to escape at the most inopportune times. She… — Laurann Dohner Copy Share Image
“don't just listen to people crying, hear the reasons why they cry” — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“It was a formidable cry of anger … Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“So I was damaged. It said so, in so many words – that it was difficult, if not impossible, for me to establish stable… — Peter Høeg 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
“Despotism may be the only organizational alternative to the political structure that we observe.” — James M. Buchanan Copy Share Image
“1. Bangladesh.... In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy in East… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“I would be quite satisfied if my novels (especially the ones I set in the past) did no more than teach my readers that… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
“Piter spoke to Jessica. "I'd thought of binding you by a threat held over your son, but I begin to see that would not… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
