Quotes from Frank Herbert

He knew this was among the alternatives today, a fact along lines of the future radiating from this position in time-space.

And 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.

Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.

It's an old, old trick of autocratic rule. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

In our society, people shouldn't be quick to take offense. It's frequently suicidal.

You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Knowledge, you see, has no uses without purpose, but purpose is what builds enclosing walls.

There are some forms of insanity which, driven to an ultimate expression, can become the new models of sanity. — BuSab Manual

But power deluded those who used it. One tended to believe power could overcome any barrier … including one's own ignorance.

Paul hesitated. There'd been no dwarf in the vision, but all else remained identical.

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?

Grave this on your memory, lad: A world is supported by four things…." She held up four big-knuckled fingers. "…the learning of the wise, the justice of the great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing…." She closed her fingers into a fist. "…without a ruler who knows the art of ruling. Make that the science of your tradition!" A