“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“What does a mirror look at?”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“I am not the river I am the net.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“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, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“All governments needed to remain under suspicion during their time of power including that of the Sisterhood itself. Trust no government! Not even mine!”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Everything you do, everything you sense and say is experiment. No deduction final. Nothing stops until dead and perhaps not even then, because each life creates endless ripples. Induction bounces within and you sensitize yourself to it. Deduction conveys illusions of absolutes. Kick the truth and shatter it!”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“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. —Darwi Odrade”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“To know a thing well, know its limits. Only when pushed beyond its tolerances will true nature be seen. — The Amtal Rule”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“We do not teach history; we recreate the experience. We follow the chain of consequences - the tracks of the beast in its forest. Look behind our words and you see the broad sweep of social behavior that no historian has ever touched.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history. —Bene Gesserit Coda”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. —The Coda”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
“Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from Chapterhouse: Dune
Frank Herbert
Born place: in Tacoma, Washington, The United States
Born date October 8, 1920
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“It is true that I am a person with black pockets of evil and hatred in my heart. There are underground places inside of me”
― Lynda Barry, quote from Cruddy
“If there’s one thing that distinguishes the human species, it is a pathological need to stay connected. The fact your people will interrupt sex to answer your communicators is a scandal across the entire Common Confederation.”
― John Scalzi, quote from The Android's Dream
“If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? That there is a part of man that man wants to reject? That man wants to keep from knowing what he is? That he wants to protect himself from seeing that he is something awful? And that this 'awful' part of himself might not be as awful as he thinks, but he finds it too strange and he does not know what to do with it? We talk about what to do with the atom bomb...But man's heart, his spirit is the deadliest thing in creation. Are not all cultures and civilizations just screens which men have used to divide themselves, to put between that part of themselves which they are afraid of and that part of themselves which they wish, in their deep timidity, to try to preserve? Are not all of man's efforts at order an attempt to still man's fear of himself?”
― Richard Wright, quote from The Outsider
“Most people think it's normal to have a nameless sorrow at the bottom of your soul.”
― Diane Duane, quote from Deep Wizardry
“afternoon and the furniture is all assembled.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, quote from Lady of the English
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