Quotes by Frank Herbert

“Fear is the mind-killer.”

“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”

“Face your fears or they will climb over your back.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.”

“There is no escapewe pay for the violence of our ancestors.”

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

“The man without emotions is the one to fear.”

“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.”

“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”

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

“You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.”

“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 mor...”

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

“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 projectio...”

“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.”

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“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 unsta...”

“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 idea...”

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

“the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead”