Quotes from Frank Herbert

Halleck murmured: "'For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.

Not addressing immediate needs is an offence to the young.

Have you heard the latest word from Arrakis?" the Baron asked. "No, Uncle." Feyd-Rautha forced himself not to look back. He turned down the hall out of the servants' wing. "They've a new prophet or religious leader of some kind among the Fremen," the Baron said. "They call him Muad'Dib. Very funny, really. It means 'the Mouse.' I've told Rabban to let them have their religion. It'll keep them occupied.

Out here, we carry no paper for contracts. We make no evening promises to be broken at dawn. When a man says a thing, that's the contract.

The concept of progress act as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib

I'll pay for my own mistake." "And your son will pay with you." "I'll shield him as well as I'm able." "Shield!" the old woman snapped. "You well know the weakness there! Shield your son too much, Jessica, and he'll not grow strong enough to fulfill any destiny.

You had to pick and choose, discreetly animating the past. And was that not the purpose of consciousness, the very essence of being alive? Select from the past and match it against the present: Learn consequences.

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

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!

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination.

I know the trap of prescience. My father's life tells me what I need to know about it. No, grandmother: to know the future absolutely is to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.