The real universe is always one step beyond logic. Frank Herbert More Quotes by Frank Herbert More Quotes From Frank Herbert Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent. Frank Herbert discontent mankind Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right! Frank Herbert reason knows people We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing? Frank Herbert giving-up fall moving Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness. Frank Herbert events tasks men Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. Frank Herbert risk technology people There is in each of us an ancient force that takes and an ancient force that gives. A man finds little difficulty facing that place within himself where the taking force dwells, but it's almost impossible for him to see into the giving force without changing into something other than man. For a woman, the situation is reversed. ... These things are so ancient within us that they're ground into each separate cell of our bodies... It's as easy to be overwhelmed by giving as by taking. Frank Herbert cells giving men the sleeper must awaken. Frank Herbert sleepers We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us. Frank Herbert childhood teaching teacher Caution is the path to mediocrity. Frank Herbert caution mediocrity path Give me a lamp so I can find the day. Frank Herbert give-me lamps giving That path leads ever down into stagnation. Frank Herbert stagnation path Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest. Frank Herbert court Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems. Frank Herbert problem-solving problem way War is the most readily available form of chaos. Frank Herbert chaos form war We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems. Frank Herbert questioning structure philosophy Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name. Frank Herbert government acceptance names The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw. Frank Herbert saws eye matter Who are the rabble and who are the ruled? Frank Herbert Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures? Frank Herbert population doe adventure Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order. Frank Herbert chaos raw-materials order
