Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 4

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• Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions.

  Frank Herbert

  Simple, Decision, Too Much

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.20, Penguin

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• If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

  Frank Herbert

  Wish, Casts, Fishes

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.39, Penguin

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• A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.

  Frank Herbert

  Creativity, Men, Creating

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Justice

  "Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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• The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Peers, Prophet, Curtains

  Frank Herbert (1984). “God Emperor of Dune”

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• Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

  Frank Herbert

  Teaching, Past, History

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.10, Penguin

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• The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

  Frank Herbert

  Wall, Wind, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• What you cannot control, you must accept.

  Frank Herbert

  Accepting

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.78, Penguin

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• There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Frank Herbert

  Hard Times, Psychics, People

  "Dune".

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• There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

  Frank Herbert

  Secret, Balance, Wave

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• Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Restoration, Life Is, Mask

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

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• The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.

  Frank Herbert

  Revenge, Tables, Violence

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Luck, Survival

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• 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

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• Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.

  Frank Herbert

  Revelations, Barriers, Ultimate

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.207, Penguin

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• A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

  Frank Herbert

  Powerful, Men

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.12, Penguin

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• Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Survival, Needs, Playing Chess

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• 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.

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• If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Belief, Share

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• You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

  Frank Herbert

  Grants, Universe

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

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• If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

  Frank Herbert

  Want, Immortality, Deny

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.377, Penguin

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• Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

  Frank Herbert

  Technology, People, Risk

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.84, Penguin

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• To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, May

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

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• The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

  Frank Herbert

  Stress, Thinking, Training

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.230, Penguin

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• Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Belief, Failing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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