Quotes from Frank Herbert
The arifa knew the ways to slay ademon and was always chosen 'because he has the wisdom to be ruthless without being cruel', to know when kindness is in fact the way to greater cruelty.
- Frank Herbert
Languages build up to reflect specializations in a way of life. Each specialization may be recognized by its words, by its assumptions and sentence structures. Look for stoppages. Specializations represent places where life is being stopped, where the movement is dammed up and frozen.
- Frank Herbert
Love leads to misery. Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Remember that woman's mistake, the pain.
- Frank Herbert
Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.
- Frank Herbert
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
- Frank Herbert
The boat spelled enveloping safety, a return to the womb. But when the men came ashore, that was birth: exposure. The sky's a hideous thing to men who want to hide from it.' Dr
- Frank Herbert
Humans are always most lonely.
- Frank Herbert
the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
- Frank Herbert
They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity of the sand.
- Frank Herbert
A faint green-pearl luminescence etched the eastern horizon.
- Frank Herbert
It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.
- Frank Herbert
Fremen possessed a highly evolved conscience which centered on their own welfare as a people. It was only to outsiders that they seemed brutish—just as outsiders appeared brutish to Fremen. Every Fremen knew very well that he could do a brutal thing and feel no guilt.
- Frank Herbert