Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
- Frank Herbert Quote

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 Quote

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

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.
- Frank Herbert Quote

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

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
- Frank Herbert Quote

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
- Frank Herbert Quote

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.
- Frank Herbert Quote

The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
- Frank Herbert Quote

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 Quote

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

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.
- Frank Herbert Quote

Truth suffers from too much analysis.
- Frank Herbert Quote

What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
- Frank Herbert Quote

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 Quote