Frank Herbert Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

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

  Frank Herbert

  Freedom, Discipline, History

  Frank Herbert (1985). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Putnam Publishing Group

• The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create.

  Frank Herbert

  Future, Journey, Desire

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.311, Penguin

• The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Desire, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.253, Penguin

• To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

  Frank Herbert

  Heart, Soul, Desire

• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Children, Educational

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