970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.

When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.