Frank Herbert

“It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.”

“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?”

“How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.”

“The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.”

“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...”

“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 th...”

“Something cannot emerge from nothing.”

“The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.”

“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.”

“To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.”

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone...”

“Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.”

“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.”