It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.
Frank HerbertMy brother comes now," Alia said. "Even an Emperor may tremble before Muad'Dib, for he has the strength of righteousness and heaven smiles upon him.
Frank HerbertI observed you in pain, lad. Pain’s merely the axis of the test. Your mother’s told you about our ways of observing. I see the signs of her teaching in you. Our test is crisis and observation.
Frank HerbertI don’t think it’s quite that simple. Some people never observe anything, Life just happens to them. They get by on little more than a kind of dumb persistence, and they resist with anger and resentment anything that might lift them out of that false serenity.
Frank HerbertAnd always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
Frank HerbertIt has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.
Frank HerbertTag: free-will science-fiction
You cannot avoid the interplay of politics within an orthodox religion. The power struggle permeates the training, education and disciplining of the orthodox community. Because of this pressure, the leaders of such a community inevitably much face that ultimate internal question: to succumb to complete opportunism as the price of maintaining their rule, or risk sacrificing themselves for the sake of the orthodox ethic.
Frank HerbertWe tend to become like the worst in those we oppose.
Frank HerbertTag: dune chapterhouse frank-herbert
I know the evil of my ancestors because I am those people. The balance is delicate in the extreme. I know that few of you who read my words have ever thought about your ancestors this way. It has not occurred to you that your ancestors were survivors and that the survival itself sometimes involved savage decisions, a kind of wanton brutality which civilized humankind works very hard to suppress. What price will you pay for that suppression? Will you accept your own extinction?
-The Stolen Journals
Tag: dune frank-herbert god-emperor-of-dune
Humans are born with a susceptibility to that most persistent and debilitating disease of intellect: self-deception. The best of all possible worlds and the worst get their dramatic coloration from it. As nearly as we can determine, there is no natural immunity. Constant alertness is required.
Frank HerbertTag: frank-herbert-dune
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