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“Les peuples vaincus essaient toujours de compenser par des mythes et des légendes.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“Le changement est la seule loi universelle.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Notre interprétation personnelle intervient toujours. Ce que nous disons que nous faisons est inévitablement modifié par notre propre compréhension et les limites de notre compréhension.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“Le véritable bonheur, c'était cela. La possibilité de s'arrêter, ne serait-ce que pour un moment.”

La Ruche d'Hellstrom, 1973

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Dune

“Là où il n'y a pas intelligence, il ne saurait y avoir stupidité.”

“La culpabilité ne s'attache qu'à celui qui demeure ignorant quand il a une chance d'apprendre.”

La Ruche d'Hellstrom, 1973

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“L'usage du pouvoir exige une certaine mesure d'inhumanité.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“La pitié est un sentiment inutile.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“La couleur d'un poisson ne le rend pas moins poisseux.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“L'adoration est produite par la peur.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Tout dépend du point de vue de l'observateur; à chaque changement de point de vue correspond un changement de lois. Il existe donc une infinité de lois.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“Un vrai chef envisage plusieurs possibilités avant d'agir.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“Toutes les monstruosités ont leurs euphémismes.”

La Ruche d'Hellstrom, 1973

“L'efficacité, c'est le contraire de l'habileté.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“On ne peut pas raisonner avec un fou.”

Les Yeux d'Heisenberg, 1966

“L’Église a suffisamment péché en se réclamant de Dieu pour bénir le meurtre.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Sur les milliards de créatures vivantes qui peuplent la terre, seul l'homme réfléchit à son existence. Ses questions aboutissent à le torturer; car il est incapable d'accepter, contrairement aux insectes, que l'unique but de la vie est la vie même.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Importe-t-il à la fourmi de savoir à qui appartient le pied qui l'écrase?”

La Ruche d'Hellstrom, 1973

“La plus puissante force de sociabilisation dans l'univers est la dépendance mutuelle.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Quand vous bravez la mort, en quoi est-ce différent d'un suicide délibéré?”

La Ruche d'Hellstrom, 1973

“Nous avons différentes façons d'esquiver la réalité. Si on nous obligeait à l'affronter à chaque instant de la journée, nous deviendrions tous fous.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“La prohibition renforce toujours ce qu'elle interdit.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Je ne connaîtrai pas la peur car la peur tue l'esprit. La peur est la petite mort qui conduit à l'oblitération totale. J'affronterai ma peur. Je lui permettrai de passer sur moi, au travers de moi. Et lorsqu'elle sera passée, je tournerai mon œil intérieur sur son chemin. Et là où elle sera passée, il n'y aura plus rien. Rien que moi.”

La Mort blanche, 1982

“Knowing where the trap is—that's the first step in evading it.”

Frank Herbert: Citations en anglais

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.”

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions.”

“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.”

Frank Herbert livre Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

“Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.”

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles”

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.”

Frank Herbert livre God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

“Emotions are the curse of logic.”

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?”

Frank Herbert livre The Green Brain

Source: The Green Brain

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of 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 livre 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 livre 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 livre Dune

Source: Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

“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.”

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

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune Messiah

Source: Dune Messiah

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: 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 livre 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 livre God Emperor of Dune

Source: God Emperor of Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre 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 livre Dune

Source: 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 livre 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 livre Children of Dune

Source: Children of Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune

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

Frank Herbert livre Dune

Source: Dune