Frank Herbert Quotes About Chaos

Quotes about: Chaos

• Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Teaching, Law

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.330, Penguin

• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

• Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.

  Frank Herbert

  Experts, Useless, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (1984). “Children of Dune”, Berkley

• War is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Chaos, Form

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.188, Penguin

• Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.

  Frank Herbert

  Order, Raw Materials, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.349, Penguin

• Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Gathering, Chaos, Collecting

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.106, Penguin

• Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Peace, War, Impossible

• You can't build politics on love. People aren't concerned with love; it's too disordered. They prefer despotism. Too much freedom breeds chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Too Much, Chaos

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.155, Penguin

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