970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free.

Then came the Butlerian Jihad – two generations of chaos. The god of machine-logic was overthrown among the masses and a new concept was raised: “Man may not be replaced.” Those.

All around the Lady Jessica – piled in corners of the Arrakeen great hall, mounded in the open spaces – stood the packaged freight of their lives: boxes, trunks, cartons, cases – some partly unpacked.

Knowing was a barrier which prevented learning.

You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.

To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.

The most perfect barrier to learning a thing is the belief that is it already known.

Your own emperor bestowed Arrakis on House Atreides. I am House Atreides.” The.

How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?” Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. “We call that one muad’dib,” Stilgar said. Jessica.