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.

Frank Herbert

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.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Frank Herbert

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?

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

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.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.

Frank Herbert

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

Frank Herbert

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.

Frank Herbert

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

Frank Herbert

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.

Frank Herbert

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Frank Herbert

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

Frank Herbert