Top 500 Frank Herbert Quotes (2023 Update)
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301. “In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.”

— Frank Herbert

302. “Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation.”

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303. “What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?”

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304. “We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.”

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305. “When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.”

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306. “I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.”

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307. “The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.”

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308. “If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.”

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309. “Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.”

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310. “Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change.”

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311. “This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here – the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.”

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312. “Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come,” Tuek said. “Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.”

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313. “Laws tend to be temporary over the long haul, Moneo. There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.”

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314. “I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.”

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315. “How do you call among you the little mouse, the mouse that jumps?” Paul asked, remembering the pop-hop of motion at Tuono Basin. He illustrated with one hand. A chuckle sounded through the troop. “We call that one muad’dib,” Stilgar said. Jessica.”

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316. “Beginnings are such delicate times.”

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317. “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.”

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318. “My son displays a general garment and you claim it’s cut to your fit?” Jessica asked. “What a fascinating revelation.”

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319. “Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.”

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320. “Fortune passes everywhere.”

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321. “It was a scene of such beauty it caught all his attention. Some things beggar likeness, he thought. He.”

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322. “Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

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323. “He understood terrible purposes. They drove against all odds. They were their own necessity. Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.”

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324. “Some lies are easier to believe than the truth.”

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325. “The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.′ And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning, ‘That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

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326. “He was warrior and mystic, ogre and saint, the fox and the innocent, chivalrous, ruthless, less than a god, more than a man.”

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327. “The old woman was a witch shadow – hair like matted spiderwebs, hooded ’round darkness of features, eyes like glittering jewels.”

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328. “Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don’t let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.”

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329. “The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.”

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330. “All rebels are closet aristocrats. That’s why I can convert them so easily.”

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331. “Desperate people are the most dangerous.”

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332. “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.”

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333. “Is that the name you wish, Muad’Dib?” Stilgar asked. “I am an Atreides,” Paul whispered, and then louder: “It’s not right that I give up entirely the name my father gave me. Could I be known among you as Paul-Muad’Dib?” “You are Paul-Muad’Dib,” Stilgar said. And.”

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334. “My mother is my enemy. She does not know it, but she is. She is bringing the jihad. She bore me; she trained me. She is my enemy.”

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335. “Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.”

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336. “A killer with the manners of a rabbit – this is the most dangerous kind.”

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337. “When God hath ordained a creature to die in a particular place, He causeth that creature’s wants to direct him to that place.”

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338. “Pain,” she sniffed. “A human can override any nerve in the body.”

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339. “Review, friends – troops long past review,” the Duke intoned. “All to fate a weight of pains and dollars. Their spirits wear our silver collars. Review, friends – troops long past review: Each a dot of time without pretense or guile. With them passes the lure of fortune. Review, friends – troops long past review. When our time ends on its rictus smile, we’ll pass the lure of fortune.”

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340. “The spice must flow.”

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341. “Religion is the emulation of the adult by the child. Religion is the encystment of past beliefs: mythology, which is guesswork, the hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, those pronouncements which men have made in search of personal power, all of it mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always the ultimate unspoken commandment is ‘Thou shalt not question!”

— Frank Herbert

342. “You know it’s love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.”

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343. “Isn’t it odd how we misunderstand the hidden unity of kindness and cruelty?” Jessica.”

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344. “You see, Count, I have the Emperor’s prison planet, Salusa Secundus, to inspire me.” The.”

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345. “The Golden Path demands it. And what is the Golden Path? you ask. It is the survival of humankind, nothing more nor less. We.”

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346. “Sir, I honor and respect the personal dignity of any man who respects my dignity.”

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347. “You must cultivate ecological literacy among the people.”

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348. “Feints within feints within feints.”

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349. “That path leads ever down into stagnation.”

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350. “Chani sat back on her heels, submerging her fears in thought as she studied Paul’s face. This was a trick she had learned from watching the Reverend Mothers. Time could be made to serve the mind.”

— Frank Herbert