The assumption that humans exist within an essentially impermanent universe, taken as an operational precept, demands that the intellect become a totally aware balancing instrument.

Frank Herbert

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you've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap. there's an animal kind of trick. a human would remain in the trap endure the pain feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Frank Herbert

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If you put away those who report accurately, you’ll keep only those who know what you want to hear. I can think of nothing more poisonous than to rot in the stink of your own reflections.

Frank Herbert

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I am a collection of the obsolete, a relic of the damned, of the lost and strayed. I am the waylaid pieces of history which sank out of sight in all of our pasts. Such an accumulation of riffraff has never before been imagined.

Frank Herbert

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To exist is to stand out, away from the background," The Preacher said. "You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.

Frank Herbert

Mots clés individuality life existence humanity

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You are a child seeking to be a man. When you are a man, you will seek in vain for the child you were.

Frank Herbert

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But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Frank Herbert

Mots clés books education learning action

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The pursuit of unhappiness is an inalienable right of all humans.

Frank Herbert

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The limit of the law is the limit of enforcement—the real limit of organized society.

Frank Herbert

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The voice of a rebeck echoed from somewhere behind him. The music echoed and echoed until it entered his head, still echoing. It suffused his body and he felt himself to be large, very large, not a child at all. And his skin was not his own.

Frank Herbert

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