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“There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. 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.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“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 unstable 'the truth' can be.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.”

Frank Herbert

“The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.”

Frank Herbert book Heretics of Dune

Source: Heretics of Dune

“What does a mirror look at?”

Frank Herbert book Chapterhouse: Dune

Source: Chapterhouse: Dune

“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.”

Frank Herbert

“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.”

Frank Herbert book Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.”

Frank Herbert book The Godmakers

Source: The Godmakers (1972)

“To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen.
-The Amtal Rule”

Frank Herbert book Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah