Quotes from Frank Herbert
It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He
- Frank Herbert
Gurney says there's no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.
- Frank Herbert
They were undoubtedbly sincere in subscribing to the argument that nuclear weapons were a reserve held for one purpose: defense of humankind should a threatening 'other intelligence' ever be encountered.
- Frank Herbert
From the Hive Manual. The relationship between ecology and evolution is extremely close, deeply implicated in organic changes among a given animal population, and profoundly sensitive to the density of numbers within a given habitat. Our adaptations aim to increase the population tolerance, to permit a human density ten to twelve times greater than is currently considered possible. Out of this, we will get our survival variations.
- Frank Herbert
It should be one of the tests," the old woman said. "Humans are almost always lonely.
- Frank Herbert
Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.
- Frank Herbert
The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less.
- Frank Herbert
what other society would have such a natural regard for her privacy and comfort that the giver would intrude only enough to deposit the gift and not inflict her with the donor?
- Frank Herbert
Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New
- Frank Herbert
They'll call me Muad'Dib, 'The One Who Points the Way'.
- Frank Herbert
attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.
- Frank Herbert
While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine—history will call us wives.
- Frank Herbert