Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 7

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• The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

  Frank Herbert

  Nature, Understanding, Environment

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Father, Believe

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.390, Penguin

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• Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Police, Criminals

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

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• Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Weapons

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.86, Penguin

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

  Frank Herbert

  Real, Mistake, Rocks

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.113, Penguin

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• He who controls the spice controls the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Spices, Science Fiction, Sci Fi

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.183, Macmillan

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• Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Philosophy, Irreverence, Way

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.276, Penguin

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• The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.

  Frank Herbert

  Survival, Important, Form

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• Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.

  Frank Herbert

  Opportunity, Feelings, Guilt

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

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• The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Joy, Facts

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.80, Penguin

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• 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

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• When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

  Frank Herbert

  Betrayal, Trying, Scream

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.34, Penguin

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• Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

  Frank Herbert

  Machinery, Ambiguous, Gross

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.175, Penguin

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• Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

  Frank Herbert

  Diversity, Alive, Landscape

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.423, Penguin

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• Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, World, May

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.42, Penguin

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• The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

  Frank Herbert

  Love Life, Self, Ideas

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.107, Penguin

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• There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

  Frank Herbert

  Hypocrite, Rebel, Selfless

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.32, Penguin

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• We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspirational, Training, Lessons

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

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• Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Training

  Frank Herbert (1999). “Dune”, Ace Hardcover

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• Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

  Frank Herbert

  Teaching, Ease, Failing

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

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• Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

  Frank Herbert

  Blood, Water, Politics

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• Journalism is the entertainment business.

  Frank Herbert

  Entertainment, Journalism, Entertainment Business

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• A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.

  Frank Herbert

  Balance, Care, Delicate

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.11, Penguin

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Observing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.50, Penguin

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