Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 13

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• If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Together, Needs

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.187, Penguin

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• What is important for a leader is that which makes him a leader. It is the needs of his people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Leader, Important

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

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• There's an unwritten compact between you and the reader. If someone enters a bookstore and sets down hard earned money (energy) for your book, you owe that person some entertainment and as much more as you can give.

  Frank Herbert

  Book, Giving, Entertainment

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.9, Penguin

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• 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

  Home, Understanding, Revolution

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Trying, Goes On

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.171, Penguin

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• A person cries out in life because it's lonely and because life's been broken off from whatever created it. But no matter how much you hate life, you love it too. It's like a caldron boiling with everything you have to have, but very painful to the lips.

  Frank Herbert

  Lonely, Hate, Broken

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• the sleeper must awaken.

  Frank Herbert

  Sleepers

  "Fictional character: Duke Leto Atreides". "Dune", www.imdb.com. 1984.

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• What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

  Frank Herbert

  Death, Needs, Fear Of Death

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.395, Penguin

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• The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Heart, Men

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.306, Macmillan

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• Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.

  Frank Herbert

  Submission

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• When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

  Frank Herbert

  Law, Littles, Individual

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

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• Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Balance

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• Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

  Frank Herbert

  Opposites, Longing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.393, Penguin

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• Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Consciousness, Penalties, Staring

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Green Brain”, p.121, Macmillan

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• Emotions are the curse of logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Emotion, Logic, Curse

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• Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

  Frank Herbert

  Mind, Machines, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel”, p.80, Hachette UK

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• Most of us choose our companions and surroundings to reflect ourselves.

  Frank Herbert

  Surroundings, Companion

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.155, Penguin

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definitions.

  Frank Herbert

  Quality, Definitions, Creation

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.91, Penguin

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• Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

  Frank Herbert

  Chance, Madness, Surprise

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• Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Space, Locks

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

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• The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II

  Frank Herbert

  Attention, Draws, Ultimate

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

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• Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.

  Frank Herbert

  War, Issues, Secret

  "The Dosadi Experiment" by Frank Herbert, (p. 246), 1977.

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• To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.

  Frank Herbert

  Dimensions, Eternity, Endless

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.156, Penguin

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• Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Looks, Consciousness

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.210, Penguin

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• Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

  Frank Herbert

  Democracy, Scapegoat, Electorate

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.145, Penguin

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