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  • #1
    Frank Herbert
    There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #2
    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.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #3
    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #4
    Frank Herbert
    “Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #5
    Frank Herbert
    “What do you despise? By this are you truly known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #6
    Frank Herbert
    “There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #7
    Frank Herbert
    “When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #8
    Frank Herbert
    “It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #9
    Frank Herbert
    “It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #10
    Frank Herbert
    “Hope clouds observation.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune
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  • #11
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #12
    Frank Herbert
    “The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “Without change something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #14
    Frank Herbert
    “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #15
    Frank Herbert
    “A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #16
    Frank Herbert
    “Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #17
    Frank Herbert
    “The people who can destroy a thing, they control it.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #18
    Frank Herbert
    “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #19
    Frank Herbert
    “Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #20
    Frank Herbert
    “Fear is the mind-killer.”
    Frank Herbert , Dune

  • #21
    Frank Herbert
    Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'

    - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #22
    Frank Herbert
    “Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #23
    Frank Herbert
    “There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #24
    Frank Herbert
    “Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #25
    Frank Herbert
    “Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #26
    Frank Herbert
    “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.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #27
    Frank Herbert
    “The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #28
    Frank Herbert
    “Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It's shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #29
    Frank Herbert
    “Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune

  • #30
    Frank Herbert
    “How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”
    Frank Herbert, Dune



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