Frank Herbert Quotes - 9quotes.com

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Written by Frank Herbert
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Written by Frank Herbert
If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.
Written by Frank Herbert
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Written by Frank Herbert
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
Written by Frank Herbert
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.
Written by Frank Herbert
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Written by Frank Herbert
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Written by Frank Herbert
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
Written by Frank Herbert
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
Written by Frank Herbert
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
Written by Frank Herbert
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
Written by Frank Herbert
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
Written by Frank Herbert
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
Written by Frank Herbert
To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
Written by Frank Herbert
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
Written by Frank Herbert
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
Written by Frank Herbert
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Written by Frank Herbert
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
Written by Frank Herbert
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Written by Frank Herbert
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.
Written by Frank Herbert
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
Written by Frank Herbert
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
Written by Frank Herbert
Truth suffers from too much analysis.
Written by Frank Herbert
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
Written by Frank Herbert
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
Written by Frank Herbert
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Written by Frank Herbert

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