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• To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

  Frank Herbert

  Adversity, Sacred, Moments

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.285, Macmillan

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• Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Use, Sticks

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• Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

  Frank Herbert

  Power, Political, Doe

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• It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Doe

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• Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, People, Gliding

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.372, Penguin

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• The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown.

  Frank Herbert

  Important, Problem

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• Governments can be useful to the governed only so long as inherent tendencies toward tyranny are restrained.

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Long, Tendencies

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.255, Penguin

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• It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, People, Difficult

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• I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.

  Frank Herbert

  Persistence, Simple, Thinking

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.139, Penguin

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• We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, People, Reason

  Frank Herbert (2002). “The Dosadi Experiment”, p.19, Macmillan

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• This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Frank Herbert

  Wise, Men, Tools

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.216, Penguin

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• The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.

  Frank Herbert

  Wall, Wind, One Day

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.31, Penguin

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• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Frank Herbert

  Wisdom, Suffering, Analysis

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.68, Penguin

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• I now believe that evolution, or deevolution, never ends short of death, that no society has ever achieved an absolute pinnacle, that all humans are not created equal. In fact, I believe attempts to create some abstract equalization create a morass of injustices that rebound on the equalizers. Equal justice and equal opportunity are ideals we should seek, but we should recognize that humans administer the ideals and that humans do not have equal ability.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Opportunity, Justice

  "Dune Genesis" by Frank Herbert , Omni, Vol. 2, No. 2 (p. 72), July 1980.

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• Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.

  Frank Herbert

  Errors, Assumption, Obsolete

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.82, Penguin

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• No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

  Frank Herbert

  Truth, Self, Matter

  Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

  Frank Herbert

  Purpose, Argument, Thrive

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.68, Penguin

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• Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion.

  Frank Herbert

  Stupidity, Conformity, Remember

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.96, Penguin

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• Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

  Frank Herbert

  Faces, Face Your Fears, Climbs

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.151, Penguin

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• There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

  Frank Herbert

  Hard Times, Psychics, People

  "Dune".

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• If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

  Frank Herbert

  Focus, Awareness, Force

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.181, Penguin

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• We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.

  Frank Herbert

  Moving, Cutting, Reality

  "The Santaroga Barrier". Book by Frank Herbert, 1968.

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• Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

  Frank Herbert

  Past, Luck, Survival

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• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Frank Herbert

  Kindness, Cynicism, Cruelty

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.434, Penguin

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• The universe does not work by our rules

  Frank Herbert

  Doe, Universe

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Destination Void”, Berkley

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