Frank Herbert Quotes

American - Writer | October 8, 1920 - February 11, 1986

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Frank Herbert

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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?

Frank Herbert

WorldThinkYouPersonDeafSee

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

Frank Herbert

ChangeInsideWithoutSomethingUs

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.

Frank Herbert

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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.

Frank Herbert

RoadWayDifferenceSameOutRabbit

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.

Frank Herbert

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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.

Frank Herbert

GovernmentWiseThinkYouCreate

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Frank Herbert

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Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Frank Herbert

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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.

Frank Herbert

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Frank Herbert

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