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At the University of Washington in Seattle, he taught a political science class about shattering the myth structures under which we live. A modern-day Socrates, he tore into what he called “unexamined linguistic and cultural assumptions.” My father knew how to do his research. Back in the 1950s, he was a speechwriter for a U.S. senator and worked in Washington, D.C. With C-9 security clearance, Frank Herbert had special access to the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress, through which he could use virtually any document or book in the vast library.
Such a landscape as this one turns you inward in search for whatever freedom your spirits can find within. Most humans are not strong enough to find freedom within.”
“Power bases are very dangerous because they attract people who are truly insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.
Scratch a conservative and you find someone who prefers the past over any future. Scratch a liberal and find a closet aristocrat.
“This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.”
“Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!”
“Paradox is a pointer telling you to look beyond it. If paradoxes bother you, that betrays your deep desire for absolutes. The relativist treats a paradox merely as interesting, perhaps amusing or even, dreadful thought, educational.”
“Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.”
