Quotes by Frank Herbert

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“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.”

“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.”

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”

“Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”

“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.”

“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.”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“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.”

“Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.”

“To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.”

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