Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 11

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• Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

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  Self, Attention, Demand

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.159, Penguin

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• Men always fear things which move by themselves.

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  Moving, Men

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

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• You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.

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  Thinking, Judgement, Risk

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.213, Penguin

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• Prophecy and prescience - How can they be put to the test in the face of unanswered questions? Consider: How much is actual prediction and how much is the prophet shaping the future to fit the prophecy? What are the harmonics inherent in the act of prophecy? Does the prophet see the future or does he see a line of weakness, a fault or cleavage that he may shatter with words or decisions as a diamond-cutter shatters his gem with a blow of the knife?

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  Blow, Knives, Decision

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

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• The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

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  Law, Violence, Grew Up

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

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• Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

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  Fall, Power, Reality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.85, Penguin

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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.

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  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.

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  Men, Decision, He Man

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

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• We Bene Gesserit sift people to find the humans.

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  People, Humans

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

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

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  Teacher, Teaching, Childhood

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

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

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  Errors, Principles, Persistent

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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.

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  Wise, Art, Prayer

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

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• Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

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  Initiative

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• War is the most readily available form of chaos.

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  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.

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  Lessons, Teach, Shows

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

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  Emotion, Deny, Internals

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

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• The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

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  Real, Steps, Logic

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

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  Quality, Dignity, Breathe

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• My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

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  Father, Thinking, Profound

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.185, Penguin

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

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  Past, Balance, Atrocities

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

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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

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  Tree, Feelings, Fruit

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

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  Tasks, May, Endure

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

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

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  Attitude, People, Giving

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

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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.

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  Acceptance, Government, Names

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

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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.

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  God, Science, Men

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

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