Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 17

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• Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!"

  Frank Herbert

  Dirty, People, Leave Me Alone

  "Introduction" to "New World or No World" by Frank Herbert, 1970.

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• We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.

  Frank Herbert

  Philosophy, Structure, Questioning

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

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• To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule

  Frank Herbert

  Tolerance, Limits, Wells

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• 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

  Differences, Rabbits, Hitting

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• Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

  Frank Herbert

  Night, Infinity

  Frank Herbert (1976). “CHILDREN OF DUNE”

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• Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

  Frank Herbert

  Responsibility, Army, People

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.149, Penguin

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• Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

  Frank Herbert

  Agreement, Wish, Tradition

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.134, Penguin

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• The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

  Frank Herbert

  Summer, Heart, Dark

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• Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

  Frank Herbert

  Evil, Answers, Might

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• “You may have eternity. I have only now.”
  “But this is eternity.”

  Frank Herbert

  May, Beloved, Eternity

  "Dune Messiah".

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• A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Water, Flesh

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.191, Penguin

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• His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice, Adjectives, Lows

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.212, Penguin

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• The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

  Frank Herbert

  Time, Doors, Vision

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.194, Penguin

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• We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?

  Frank Herbert

  Giving Up, Moving, Fall

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.103, Penguin

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• Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Events, Tasks

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

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• But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write.

  Frank Herbert

  Reading, Writing, Differences

  "Shoptalk: learning to write with writers". Book by Donald Morison Murray, 1990.

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• I am not the river I am the net.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Rivers

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• Jessica stopped beside him, said: 'What delicious abandon in the sleep of a child.' He spoke mechanically: 'If only adults could relax like that.' 'Yes.' 'Where do we lose it?' he murmured. 'We do, indeed, lose something,' she said.

  Frank Herbert

  Children, Sleep, Relax

  "Dune".

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• There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking.

  Frank Herbert

  Men, Cells, Giving

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

  Frank Herbert

  Schemes, Humans, Persons

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.138, Penguin

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• I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Would Be, Easy

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.273, Penguin

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• If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Firsts, Exploration

  "Doll Factory, Gun Factory" in "he Maker of Dune: Insights of a Master of Science Fiction" edited by Tim O'Reilly, 1987.

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• The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib

  Frank Herbert

  Play, Problem

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.193, Penguin

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• Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

  Frank Herbert

  Voice, Prophet

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.314, Penguin

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• There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.

  Frank Herbert

  Limits, Constitution

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.54, Penguin

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