Frank HerbertThe 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… ▶372Time
Frank HerbertTime can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself. ✨ Frank He… ▶361Time
Frank HerbertOne 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… ▶351Reading
Frank HerbertMost believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed. ✨ Frank Herbert (2008). God Emperor of Dune, p.351, Pengu… ▶341HopeThoughtTime
Frank HerbertThey say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence. ✨ Frank Herbert (2008). God Emperor o… ▶352Sadness
Frank HerbertAll governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a… ▶353HumanityPolitics
Frank HerbertA leader is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people. He maintains the level of individuals. Too few individuals and a people reverts to a mob. ✨ Frank Herbe… ▶342Humanity
Frank HerbertOnce human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it. ✨ Frank Herbert (2014). The Collected Stories of Frank Herbert, p.149, Macmilla… ▶342Humanity
Frank HerbertMost civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regul… ▶331LifePolitics
Frank HerbertThe surest way to keep a secret is to make people believe they already know the answer. ✨ Children Of Dune: The Third Dune Novel.331HumanityReading
Frank HerbertThe mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.52, Penguin331Thought
Frank HerbertIf enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Heretics of Du… ▶365Reflection
Frank HerbertSympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your… ▶343Life
Frank HerbertEducational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.109, Penguin354Humanity
Frank HerbertWhat does a mirror look at? ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.178, Penguin321Reflection
Frank HerbertThere should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. ✨ Dune.332HumanityTime
Frank HerbertOne learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.321Reading
Frank HerbertBelief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. ✨ Frank Herbert (2008). Dune Messiah, p.26, Penguin354Hope
Frank HerbertRemember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.96, Penguin322Sadness
Frank HerbertAtrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances… ▶333HopeReadingTime
Frank HerbertI live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly. ✨ Frank Herbert (2008). Dune Messi… ▶344Life
Frank HerbertThe mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structur… ▶334HumanityPoliticsThought
Frank HerbertIf you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.201, Penguin323Sadness
Frank HerbertConstitutions 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 consc… ▶378Politics
Frank HerbertAll men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of… ▶313Politics
Frank HerbertGrowth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.126, Penguin357Time
Frank HerbertShow me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.113, Penguin335Time
Frank HerbertWhether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality. ✨ Frank Herbert (2003). Dune, p.434, Penguin324PoliticsThoughtTruth
Frank HerbertIntelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary. ✨ Frank Herbert (1987). Chapterhouse: Dune, p.320, Penguin<… ▶379Thought
Frank HerbertWe’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wa… ▶379Reading
