Frank Herbert Quotes

Frank Herbert is known for his series of ecological fiction, in the science fiction genre. Dune was awarded the first Nebula for Best Novel, and he received numerous other awards. Here are a few quotes from Frank Herbert.

• "Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker."
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• "Every civilizaiton must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscience intention of the collectivity."
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• "Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase... 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"
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• "How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him."
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• "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to 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."
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• "It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich."
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• "Kindness is the beginning of cruelty."
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• "Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
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• "The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand."
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• "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."
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• "There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves."
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• "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?"
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• "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."
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• "Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know."
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• "Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."
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