Frank Herbert Quotations | Page 2

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.

We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy

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.

I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.