The best Quotes by Frank Herbert

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was an American science-fiction author best known for the 1965 novel Dune and its five sequels.

The best Book Quotes

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Knowing where the trap is - that's the first step in evading it.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.

Frank Herbert in Dune
 
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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Truth, Morality & EthicsFrank Herbert
 
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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Wealth & RichnessFrank Herbert
 
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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

LearningFrank Herbert
 
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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert
 
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