Frank Herbert Quotes

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

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

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

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.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Frica este ucigașul minții.

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.

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.

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

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

I am not the river I am the net.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe-living time.