Quotes from Frank Herbert
To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
- Frank Herbert
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
- Frank Herbert
Right from the first, the little people who formed the governments which promised to equalize the social burdens found themselves suddenly in the hands of bureaucratic aristocracies. Of course, all bureaucracies follow this pattern, but what a hypocrisy to find this even under a communized banner. Ahhh, well, if patterns teach me anything it's that patterns are repeated.
- Frank Herbert
All of history is a malleable instrument in my hands. Ohhh, I have accumulated all of these pasts and I possess every fact—yet the facts are mine to use as I will and, even using them truthfully, I change them.
- Frank Herbert
They were such seriously futile people that she found herself wanting to cry out against their ready-made justifications for pointless lives.
- Frank Herbert
He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
- Frank Herbert
He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.
- Frank Herbert
Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. -Alma Mavis Taraza
- Frank Herbert
Life produces a different taste each time you take it.
- Frank Herbert
Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.
- Frank Herbert
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
- Frank Herbert
I cannot lie to you any more than I could lie to myself," Paul said. "I know this. Every man should have such an auditor.
- Frank Herbert