Frank Herbert Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

  Frank Herbert

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.35, Penguin

• Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Reality, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

• We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

• Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

  Frank Herbert

  Memories, Fall, Reality

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.366, Penguin

• Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

  Frank Herbert

  Ambition, Reality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.97, Penguin

• Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

  Frank Herbert

  Fall, Power, Reality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.85, Penguin

• A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.

  Frank Herbert

  Coffee, Moving, Men

  "Dune (40th Anniversary Edition)". Book by Frank Herbert, Penguin, p. 30, August 2, 2005.

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