970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.

Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune

Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.

The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

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

The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.