Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself. Frank Herbert More Quotes by Frank Herbert More Quotes From Frank Herbert Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. Frank Herbert individual quality civilization Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away. Frank Herbert sprint youth trying I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly. Frank Herbert bored dream steps The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be. Frank Herbert believe father children And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation. Frank Herbert safe warning temptation Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words. Frank Herbert religious practice attention A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process. Frank Herbert coffee men moving What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death? Frank Herbert fear-of-death death needs The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you. Frank Herbert endure lying past Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it. Frank Herbert being-real done science Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. Frank Herbert observing missing Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma. Frank Herbert chaos useless experts Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock. Frank Herbert rocks real mistake Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck. Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune Frank Herbert player missing games You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will. Frank Herbert grants universe Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival. Frank Herbert playing-chess survival needs Something cannot emerge from nothing. Frank Herbert profound-truth Historians exercise great power and some of them know it. They recreate the past, changing it to fit their own interpretations. Thus, they change the future as well. Frank Herbert fit exercise past There's a lesson in every temptation. Frank Herbert lessons temptation The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche. Frank Herbert niche ecosystems realizing
