Frank Herbert Quotes
"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
- Frank Herbert
"Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Wealth, Freedom, Pursuit, Slavery)
"To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Beginning, End, Mortality, Terror)
"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
(Related: Fact, May, Senses, World)
"There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Violence)
"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Change, Control, Wealth, Battle, Conflict, Will)
"The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Danger, Lies)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: People, Action, Distrust, Want)
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Change)
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Knowledge, Beginning, Discovery)
"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Truth)
"Something cannot emerge from nothing."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Nothing)
"The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Being, Difference, Road, Sentiment)
"Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Enemies)
"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Truth, Darkness, Falsehood, Light)
"Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: End, Road)
"He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Control)
"How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Denial, Man, Self)
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Government, Popular, Sense, Will)
"It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Man, Poor)
"Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Beginning, Cruelty, Kindness)
"Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Religion, Progress, Future, Myth)
"Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Morality, Truth, Being, Respect)
"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Discipline, Freedom, Liberty)
"One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is."
- Frank Herbert
(Related: Home, Computer, Revolution, Logic, Understanding)