I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. Frank Herbert More Quotes by Frank Herbert More Quotes From Frank Herbert Kindness is the beginning of cruelty. Frank Herbert crueltycynicismkindness Remember: Bureaucracy elevates conformity ... Make that elevates 'fatal stupidity' to the status of religion. Frank Herbert conformitystupidityremember Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing. Frank Herbert universesensibleanswers Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all. Frank Herbert tonecomedypsychological 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 governmentwisethinking The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good. Frank Herbert ultimatetestsevil The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man. Frank Herbert greatnessstrongmoving Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people. Frank Herbert waterpeopleworld Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson. Frank Herbert trainingbelievepeople The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself. Frank Herbert curtainsprophetpeers Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive. Frank Herbert moleculesspacenumbers We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. Frank Herbert traininglessonsinspirational There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh. Frank Herbert fleshmenfather Too much knowledge never makes for simple decisions. Frank Herbert too-muchdecisionsimple Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us. Frank Herbert blamelogicencounters What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical. Frank Herbert bookpeopleneeds I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will. Frank Herbert boredomfree-willbelieve Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe. Frank Herbert irreverencephilosophyway Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. Frank Herbert technologytoolsfaces Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood. Frank Herbert politicswaterblood
