Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 6

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• If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Order, Filters

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.119, Penguin

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• Madness in method, that's genius

  Frank Herbert

  Genius, Madness, Method

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.376, Penguin

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• Justice? Who asks for justice? We make our own justice ... Let us not rail about justice as long as we have arms and the freedom to use them.

  Frank Herbert

  Long, Justice, Use

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.421, Penguin

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• A leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Leader, Levels

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.256, Penguin

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• What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, People, Needs

  "Conversations in Port Townsend". "The Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

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• Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.

  Frank Herbert

  Water, Swim, Survival

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.272, Penguin

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• Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

  Frank Herbert

  Funny, Confused, Animal

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• Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Destruction, Seeds

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• Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

  Frank Herbert

  Jobs, Police, Kind

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

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• If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Differences, Done

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• The dice cannot read their own spots.

  Frank Herbert

  Perception, Dice, Spots

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.166, Penguin

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• 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

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

  Frank Herbert

  Player, Games, Missing

  Frank Herbert (2011). “Chapter House Dune: The Sixth Dune Novel”, p.38, Hachette UK

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• The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

  Frank Herbert

  Safe, Path, Clear

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• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

  Frank Herbert

  Hate, Princess, Hatred

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

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• Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Way, Blind

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• Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself - a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Self, Atrocities Committed

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

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• Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Water, World

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Gathering, Chaos, Collecting

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.106, Penguin

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• Hope clouds observation.

  Frank Herbert

  Hope, Ambition, Clouds

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.17, Penguin

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• When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

  Frank Herbert

  Whirlwind, Religion And Politics, Carts

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• In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

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  Misery, Force, Humans

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

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• Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

  Frank Herbert

  Ambition, Reality

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

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

  Frank Herbert

  Encounters, Logic, Blame

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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