The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Frank Herbert More Quotes by Frank Herbert More Quotes From Frank Herbert A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel. Frank Herbert rulers We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power. Frank Herbert mask wealth power Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known. Frank Herbert failing teaching ease Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. Frank Herbert parting sadness Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty. Frank Herbert atheism errors adventure Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here." Frank Herbert princess knives attitude When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite. Frank Herbert one-thing creatures opposites Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships. Frank Herbert landscape diversity alive Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. Frank Herbert mountain tests littles If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal. Frank Herbert immortality deny want The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not...yet, I occurred. Frank Herbert love-life self ideas When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them. Frank Herbert fighting mistake men I'm going to rub your faces in things you try to avoid. I don't find it strange that all you want to believe is only that which comforts you. How else do humans invent the traps which betray us into mediocrity? How else do we define cowardice? Frank Herbert comfort trying believe 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? Frank Herbert may world thinking The joy of living, its beauty, is all bound up in the fact that life can surprise you. Frank Herbert joy life facts If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order. Frank Herbert filters order believe The future remains uncertain and so it should, for it is the canvas upon which we paint our desires. Thus always the human condition faces a beautifully empty canvas. We possess only this moment in which to dedicate ourselves continuously to the sacred presence which we share and create. Frank Herbert future journey desire Truth suffers from too much analysis. Frank Herbert analysis wisdom suffering Silence is often the best thing to say. Frank Herbert best-things silence-is silence Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual. Frank Herbert empires purpose suffering
