Frank Herbert Quotes
Fear is the mind-killer.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
It’s not power that corrupts, but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
There is no escape. We pay for the violence of our ancestors.
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good and how he treats people who can’t fight back.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.
Nature does not recognize a distinction between right and wrong.
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what’s going on.
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
What saves us is efficiency—the devotion to efficiency.
Hope clouds observation.
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
The most persistent principles of the universe are accident and error.
He who can destroy a thing controls a thing.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.
It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all.
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
The difference between a good administrator and a bad one is about five heartbeats.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts, perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
The worst thing imaginable is the power to destroy a thing but not the ability to control it.
Is it not harder to kill a whisper than even a Thousand men marching?
The future remains an obstacle and a mystery, both bright and dark.
There must be a constant questioner to tease out the correct answers.
An enemy without hate is a weapon without a blade.
Sometimes the shortest distance between two points is not the best route.
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
To attempt an understanding of Muad’Dib without understanding his mortal enemies, the Harkonnens, is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood.
Hope clouds observation.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Between desire and darkness, between losing and finding, lies the secret of balance.
Suffer the pain of discipline or suffer the pain of regret.
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
True freedom comes from conquering fear, not avoiding it.
The capacity for knowledge is irrelevant to understanding.
Knowledge is like a drug – without control it can destroy you.
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration.
The function of justice is to eliminate those who fear it from positions where they could do damage to others.
All power is a burden until it is coveted.
The future remains an obstacle and a mystery, both bright and dark.