Quotes from Frank Herbert
The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.
- Frank Herbert
That was the thing he resented about religion, Bickel thought—the way it appealed to emotion rather than intelligence.
- Frank Herbert
You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.
- Frank Herbert
The tribal commander must lose no face among those who should obey him.
- Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
- Frank Herbert
Muad'dib's Jihad was less than an eye-blink in this larger movement. The Bene Gesserit swimming in this tide, that corporate entity trading in genes, was trapped in the torrent as he was. Visions of a falling moon must be measured against other legends, other visions in a universe where even the seemingly eternal stars waned, flickered, died . . . What mattered a single moon in such a universe? Far
- Frank Herbert
They've also sent some incidental things—jewelry for the Lady Jessica, spice liquor, candy, medicinals. My men are processing the lot right now.
- Frank Herbert
Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.
- Frank Herbert
It supports a ruling class that lives as ruling classes have lived in all times while, beneath them, a semihuman mass of semislaves exists on the leavings…
- Frank Herbert
Beginnings are fragile things.
- Frank Herbert
How persistent it is, this demand that our gods be perfect. The Greeks were much more reasonable about such things.
- Frank Herbert
What senses do we lack that we can not see or hear another world all around us?
- Frank Herbert