Frank Herbert Quotes - Page 7

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• Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

  Frank Herbert

  People, Water, World

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.114, Penguin

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• If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.

  Frank Herbert

  Believe, Differences, Done

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• The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

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  Safe, Path, Clear

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• Hope clouds observation.

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  Hope, Ambition, Clouds

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

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• I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

  Frank Herbert

  Inspiration, Worry, Sitting Down

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

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• The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.

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  Lessons, Things Change, Greater Power

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.162, Penguin

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• Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

  Frank Herbert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Leadership

  Frank Herbert (2010). “Dune”, p.327, Hachette UK

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• Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.

  Frank Herbert

  Thinking, Way, Blind

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• In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

  Frank Herbert

  Misery, Force, Humans

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Heretics of Dune”, p.89, Penguin

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• When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

  Frank Herbert

  Whirlwind, Religion And Politics, Carts

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• In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.

  Frank Herbert

  Self, Law, Names

  "God Emperor of Dune" by Frank Herbert, "The Stolen Journals", 1981.

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• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Frank Herbert

  Lying, Path, Danger

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.69, Penguin

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• Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.

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  Ambition, Reality

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.97, Penguin

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• Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?

  Frank Herbert

  Government, Weapons

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.86, Penguin

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• The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

  Frank Herbert

  Nature, Understanding, Environment

  "Dune". Book by Frank Herbert, 1965.

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• What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

  Frank Herbert

  Fighting, Making Love, Matter

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.37, Penguin

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• He who controls the spice controls the universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Spices, Science Fiction, Sci Fi

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Frank Herbert (2008). “The Road to Dune”, p.183, Macmillan

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• If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced.

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  Believe, True Or False, Assumption

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

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• What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

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  Hate, Princess, Hatred

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.204, Penguin

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• Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

  Frank Herbert

  Philosophy, Irreverence, Way

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.276, Penguin

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• Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

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  Real, Reality, Thrive

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

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• Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life.

  Frank Herbert

  Missing, Observing

  Frank Herbert (1987). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, p.50, Penguin

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• Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

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  Suffering, Purpose, Empires

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Dune Messiah”, p.49, Penguin

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• Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

  Frank Herbert

  Knowing, Steps, Firsts

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.44, Penguin

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• Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.

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  Diversity, Alive, Landscape

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.423, Penguin

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