Frank Herbert Quotes

Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

There are illusions of popular history which a successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; v...

There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace—those qualities you find always in that which the true artist captures. You can find it in the turni...

There is the difference between us, he said. You are God embodied. You walk around within the greatest miracle of this universe, yet you refuse to touch or see or feel or believe in it.

There's an internally recognized beauty of motion and balance on any man-healthy planet,' Kynes said. 'You see in this beauty a dynamic stabilizing effect essential to all life. It's aim is simple: to...

There's steel in this man that no one has taken the temper out of...

There’s a Bene Gesserit saying, she said. You have sayings for everything! he protested. You’ll like this one, she said. It goes: ‘Do not count a human dead until you’ve seen his body. And even then y...

There’s always a prevailing mystique in any civilization, Leto said. It builds itself as a barrier against change, and that always leaves future generations unprepared for the universe’s treachery. Al...

They’d never known anything but victory which, Paul realized, could be a weakness in itself. He put that thought aside for later consideration in his own training program.

This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This...

This is the perspective which you create with your own belief, and beliefs can be manipulated by imagination. You’ve learned only a limited way of looking at the universe. Now you must make the univer...

This moment here is the only observable time and place for us in our universe.

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

To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.-Ancient Fremen Saying

We know this moment of supreme power contained Failure. There can only be one answer. That completely accurate and total prediction is lethal.

What religion and self-interest cannot hide, governments can, Edric said.

When religion and politics ride the same cart, when that cart is driven by a living holy man (baraka), nothing can stand in their path.

Where is Alia?' she asked.'Out doing what any good Fremen child should be doing in such times,' Paul said. 'She’s killing enemy wounded...

Whirling silence settled around Jessica. Every fiber of her body accepted the fact that something profound had happened to it. She felt that she was a conscious mote, smaller than any subatomic partic...