Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 11

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• All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Want, Proof

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.158, Penguin

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• The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right
  decisions.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Decision, He Man

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

  Frank Herbert

  Teacher, Teaching, Childhood

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.316, Penguin

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• A world is supported by four things: the learning of wise, the justice of great, the prayers of the righteous and the valor of the brave. But all of these are as nothing without a ruler who knows the art of ruling.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Art, Prayer

  "Dune: The Gateway Collection". Book by Frank Herbert, 2012.

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• The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Principles, Persistent

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• Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

  Frank Herbert

  Initiative

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• War is the most readily available form of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Chaos, Form

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

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• The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

  Frank Herbert

  Lessons, Teach, Shows

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• The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Steps, Logic

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Emotion, Deny, Internals

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.238, Penguin

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• Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Dignity, Breathe

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• Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Educational, Dull

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.109, Penguin

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• You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Should, Company

  "God Emperor of Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1981.

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• Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

  Frank Herbert

  Acceptance, Government, Names

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 297), 1977.

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• I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

  Frank Herbert

  Tree, Feelings, Fruit

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• Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Balance, Atrocities

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.110, Penguin

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• ... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, People, Giving

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.62, Penguin

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Tasks, May, Endure

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.99, Penguin

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• Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."

  Frank Herbert

  Attitude, Princess, Knives

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Differences, Violence

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.148, Penguin

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• Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

  Frank Herbert

  Trying, Youth, Sprint

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

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• We tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.

  Frank Herbert

  Enemy, Worst

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.28, Penguin

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• How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

  Frank Herbert

  Anger, Men, Self

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.366, Penguin

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• It must certainly be more dangerous to live in ignorance than to live with knowledge.

  Frank Herbert

  Ignorance, Dangerous

  Frank Herbert (2007). “The White Plague”, p.68, Macmillan

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• All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  God, Science, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.432, Penguin

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