Quotes from Frank Herbert
Paul crawled through the sphincter
- Frank Herbert
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.
- Frank Herbert
I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.
- Frank Herbert
The Universe is God's. It is one thing, a wholeness against which all separations may be identified. Transient life, even that self-aware and reasoning life which we call sentient, holds only fragile trusteeship on any portion of the wholeness.
- Frank Herbert
He's awake and listening to us," said the old woman. "Sly little rascal." She chuckled. "But royalty has need of slyness. And if he's really the Kwisatz Haderach…well….
- Frank Herbert
Paradise on my right, Hell on my left, and the Angel of Death behind.
- Frank Herbert
To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen.
- Frank Herbert
The future is a thing to be shaped, Scytale said. Hold that thought, Princess.
- Frank Herbert
So many times you've given me comfort and forgetfulness.
- Frank Herbert
I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts.
- Frank Herbert
What terrible things we do to those we love!
- Frank Herbert
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind,'" Paul quoted. "Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible," she said. "But what the O.C. Bible should've said is: 'Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.' Have you studied the Mentat in your service?
- Frank Herbert