History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe. Frank Herbert More Quotes by Frank Herbert More Quotes From Frank Herbert If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets. Frank Herbert fishes casts wish Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance. Frank Herbert police kind jobs Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you! Frank Herbert fear trying looks The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. Frank Herbert historical secret writing Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government? Frank Herbert government weapons Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe. Frank Herbert failing belief mind You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence. Frank Herbert judgement risk thinking Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance. Frank Herbert increase affair should All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. Frank Herbert god men science Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary. Frank Herbert understanding over-you law Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself. Frank Herbert killing hands art If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you believe the assumptions in the words which express the arguments. Such assumptions are often full of holes, but remain most precious to the convinced. Frank Herbert true-or-false assumption believe You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die. Frank Herbert company should want What do you despise? By this are you truly known. Frank Herbert princess hate hatred 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. Frank Herbert profound father thinking I don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity. Frank Herbert persistence simple thinking Words themselves were the ultimate barrier to revelation. Frank Herbert revelations barriers ultimate The greatest and most important problems of life cannot be solved. They can only be outgrown. Frank Herbert important problem Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself. Frank Herbert blind way thinking A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it. Frank Herbert business inspirational moving
