Frank Herbert Quotes

Previše znanja nikad ne dopušta jednostavne odluke.

Prophecy and prescience—How can they be put to the test in the face of the unanswered question? Consider: How much is actual prediction of the wave form (as Muad’Dib referred to his vision-image) and...

QUESTION: Who governs the governors?ANSWER: Entropy.

Remember that there exists a certain malevolence about the formation of any social order. It is the struggle for existence by an artificial entity. Despotism and slavery hover at the edges. Many injur...

Taraza cleared her throat. No need. Lucilla is one of our finest Imprinters. Each of you, of course, received the identical liberal conditioning to prepare you for this. There was something almost ins...

The Harkonnens discouraged investigation of the spice, didn’t they?

The Zensunni approach to birth, he said, urging her even faster, is to wait without purpose in the state of highest tension. Do not compete with what is happening. To compete is to prepare for failure...

The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.

The real wealth of a planet is in its landscape, how we take part in that basic source of civilization- agriculture.

The thing about computers—it's like training a dog. You have to be smarter than the dog. If you make a computer smarter than you are, that has to be accident, synergy, or divine intervention.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

Duncan spoke quietly: 'Lucilla, if you touch me again without my permission, I will to kill you. I will try so hard that you very likely will have to kill me.

Each man is a little war.

Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?' Alliances, combines, complexes, they all chase mirages unless they go for the power. All e...

For a moment, the sensation of coolness and the moisture were blessed relief. Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the mos...

How strange. You're more Gowachin than a Gowachin.

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 resentme...

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

Jessica, hearing the voices, felt the depth of the experience, realized what terrible inhibitions there must be against shedding tears. She focused on the words: He gives moisture to the dead. It was...

Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly...