Frank Herbert quotes

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

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 popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

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

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 past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

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.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.