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Frank Herbert Quotes

Type: Writer Quotes Category: American Writer Quotes Date of Birth: October 8, 1920 Date of Death: February 11, 1986 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Frank Herbert Related Authors: Mason Cooley H. L. Mencken Eric Hoffer Elbert Hubbard Oliver Wendell Holmes Marilyn vos Savant Bill James Jeff Long

Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. Frank Herbert Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker. Frank Herbert He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing. Frank Herbert How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. Frank Herbert 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 It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. Frank Herbert Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. Frank Herbert One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. Frank Herbert Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. Frank Herbert Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Frank Herbert Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty. Frank Herbert Something cannot emerge from nothing. Frank Herbert The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand. Frank Herbert The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. Frank Herbert The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. Frank Herbert The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger. Frank Herbert The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. Frank Herbert There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors. Frank Herbert Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us? Frank Herbert To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. Frank Herbert To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. Frank Herbert Truth suffers from too much analysis. Frank Herbert Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Frank Herbert What do you despise? By this are you truly known. Frank Herbert 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. Frank Herbert Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert

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