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1 " There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors. "
― Frank Herbert , Dune
2 " The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. "
― Frank Herbert
3 " Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. "
4 " The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it. "
― Frank Herbert , God Emperor of Dune (Dune, #4)
5 " 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. "
6 " Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. "
7 " Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. "
8 " 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. "
9 " Education is no substitute for intelligence. "
10 " I am not the river I am the net. "
― Frank Herbert , Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune, #6)
11 " The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. "
― Frank Herbert , Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)
12 " There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time. "
13 " 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. "
14 " There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story. "
15 " The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion. "
― Frank Herbert , Children of Dune (Dune, #3)
16 " Facing your fears robs them of their power "
17 " When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's too late. "
18 " They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous. "
19 " 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. "
20 " But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish. "
