Frank Herbert quotes - page 5

Hope clouds observation. (Frank Herbert)
Fear is the mind-killer. View quote
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Guilt starts as a feeling of failure. View quote
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Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment. View quote
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Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. View quote
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. View quote
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The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent. View quote
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What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there's the real danger. View quote
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. View quote
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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things. View quote
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Something cannot emerge from nothing. (Frank Herbert)
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures. View quote
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The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error. View quote
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Emotions are the curse of logic. View quote
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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. View quote
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian. View quote
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The problem of leadership is inevitably: Who will play God?" Muad'Dib. View quote
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Law is the ultimate science. View quote
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There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains. View quote
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What does a mirror look at? View quote
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I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands? (Frank Herbert)
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken. View quote
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When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. View quote
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Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? ... Failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime. View quote
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Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject. View quote
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