Frank Herbert Quotes

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

You don’t see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

My father once told me that respect for truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

Je ne connaîtrai pas la peur car la peur tue l'esprit. La peur est la petite mort qui conduit à l'oblitération totale. J'affronterai ma peur. Je lui permettrai de passer sur moi, au travers de moi. Et lorsqu'elle sera passée, je tournerai mon œil intérieur sur son chemin. Et là où elle sera passée, il n'y aura plus rien. Rien que moi.

"I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard."

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security.
-Alma Mavis Taraza

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

The universe is full of doors.

Não terei medo. O medo mata a mente. O medo é a pequena morte que leva à aniquilação total. Enfrentarei meu medo. Permitirei que passe por cima e através de mim. E, quando tiver passado, voltarei o olho interior para ver seu rastro. Onde o medo não estiver mais, nada haverá. Somente eu restarei.

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.