Frank Herbert Quotes About Greatness

Quotes about: Greatness

• Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Imagination, Feelings

• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.

  Frank Herbert

  Strong, Moving, Greatness

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

• Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Civilization, Quality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.283, Penguin

• What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce. ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

  Frank Herbert

  Loyalty, Real, Greatness

  "Children of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1976.

• The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

  Frank Herbert

  Greatness, Feelings, Myth

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.116, Penguin

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