Quotes from Frank Herbert

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.

Give me the judgment of balanced minds in preference to laws every time. Codes and manuals create patterned behavior. All patterned behavior tends to go unquestioned, gathering destructive momentum.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.