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    Frank Herbert
    “Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: paradox
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    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
    tags: muad-dib, order, princess-irulan, reality, understanding
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    Frank Herbert
    “Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: politics
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    Frank Herbert
    “The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: education, intelligence, wisdom
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    Frank Herbert
    “Truth suffers from too much analysis.

    -Ancient Fremen Saying”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: introspection
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    Frank Herbert
    “If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.”
    ― Frank Herbert, The Dune Storybook
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    Frank Herbert
    “The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: corruption, power
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    Frank Herbert
    “What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.”
    ― Frank Herbert
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    Frank Herbert
    “Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
    tags: research, science
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    Frank Herbert
    “Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”
    ― Frank Herbert
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    Frank Herbert
    “The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: philosophy, truth
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    Frank Herbert
    “The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Good governance never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Children of Dune
    tags: government, rulership, spacing-guild
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    Frank Herbert
    “Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?”
    ― Frank Herbert, Heretics of Dune
    tags: bureaucracy, innovation
    113 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”
    ― Frank Herbert
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    Frank Herbert
    “All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: attract, governments, pathological-personalities, power, problem, recurring, suffer
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    Frank Herbert
    “Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
    tags: constitution, power, tyranny
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    Frank Herbert
    “Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    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
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    Frank Herbert
    “When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: rebellion
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    Frank Herbert
    “I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: philosophical, religous, spiritual
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    Frank Herbert
    “Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse: Dune
    tags: conservatism, logic, survival
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    Frank Herbert
    “There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: hypocrites
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    Frank Herbert
    “Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”
    ― Frank Herbert, God Emperor of Dune
    tags: corruption, criminals, injustice, police
    110 likes

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    Frank Herbert
    “A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”
    ― Frank Herbert, Dune
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    Frank Herbert
    “Madness in method, that's genius”
    ― Frank Herbert
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    Frank Herbert
    “Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.”
    ― Frank Herbert
    tags: irreverence, leto-ii, philosophy, religion
    22 likes



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