970 Quotes by Frank Herbert

One cannot have a single thing without its opposite.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it’s a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.

You see, gentlemen, they have something to die for. They’ve discovered they’re a people. They’re awakening.

The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

Science is made up of so many things that appear obvious after they are explained.

The mind can go either direction under stress – toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

We pray to a moon: she is round – Luck with us will then abound, What we seek for shall be found In the land of solid ground.

There’s hope left in these dusty chords. There’s a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

It’s an old, old trick of autocratic rule,” Idaho said. “Alia knows it well. Good subjects must feel guilty. The guilt begins as a feeling of failure. The good autocrat provides many opportunities for failure in the populace.