Frank Herbert Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Beginnings are such delicate times. Dune

2. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

3. Education is no substitute for intelligence.

4. I am not the river I am the net. Chapterhouse: Dune

5. I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day. Dune Messiah

6. 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. Dune

7. Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? Dune Messiah

8. The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. God Emperor of Dune

9. There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Dune

10. We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance? God Emperor of Dune

11. Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. Dune

12. A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. Dune

13. A seed blown on the wind could be tomorrow's willow tree. God Emperor of Dune

14. A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both. Dune

15. Every judgment teeters on the brink of error,' Leto explained. 'To claim absolute knowledge is to becomemonstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Children of Dune

16. Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class - whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.- Politics as Repeat Phenomenon: Bene Gesserit Training Manual Children of Dune

17. Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new. Dune

18. 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. Dune

19. IF.' 'If you had only . . . If we had but. . .' He wanted to shout them into silence. 'Only fools prefer the past! God Emperor of Dune

20. In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshly sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleetingly aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use it's proper name: Temporary. God Emperor of Dune

21. 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.

22. Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. God Emperor of Dune

23. motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

24. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. Dune

25. The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. God Emperor of Dune

26. There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Dune

27. There's no substitute for time in solving many problems,' Leto said. 'However, you can place too much reliance on it. I can accept no more delays. God Emperor of Dune

28. To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.

29. We must listen across at least as many years into our future as those journals lay hidden in our past. We will not try to predict the discoveries yet to be made within those pages. We say only that they must be made. How can we turn our backs on our most important inheritance? God Emperor of Dune

30. Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick. Dune