The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Knowledge, Discovery
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Change
People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Adversity, Oppression
They made the fatal decision: they’d chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: War, Decision
The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Life
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Progress
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
—Frank Herbert
Topics: World
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Desire, Freedom, Discipline
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
Topics: Duty
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
—Frank Herbert
There’s no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Balance
Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Past, Fear, Will, Mind, Death, Courage
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
Journalism is the entertainment business.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Journalism, Journalists
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
—Frank Herbert
Topics: Truth
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