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“And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“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.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.”

Frank Herbert

“To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.”

Frank Herbert

“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

“Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.”

Frank Herbert book God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“Police are inevitably corrupted…. Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.”

Frank Herbert book God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.”

Frank Herbert book Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.”

Frank Herbert book Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Do you wrestle with dreams?
Do you contend with shadows?
Do you move in a kind of sleep?
Time has slipped away.
Your life is stolen.
You tarried with trifles,
Victim of your folly.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“We have eternity, beloved."
"You may have eternity. I have only now."
"But this is eternity.”

Frank Herbert book Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah