Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection Quotes

“Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” “‘Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man’s mind,’” Paul quoted. “Right out of the Butlerian Jihad and the Orange Catholic Bible,” she said. “But what the O.C. Bible should’ve said is: ‘Thou shalt not make a machine to counterfeit a human mind.’ Have you studied the Mentat in your service?” “I’ve studied with Thufir Hawat.” “The Great Revolt took away a crutch,” she said. “It forced human minds to develop. Schools were started to train human talents.” “Bene Gesserit schools?” She nodded. “We have two chief survivors of those ancient schools: the Bene Gesserit and the Spacing Guild. The Guild, so we think, emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs another function.” “Politics,” he said. “Kull wahad!” the old woman said. She sent a hard glance at Jessica. “I’ve not told him, Your Reverence,” Jessica said. The Reverend Mother returned her attention to Paul. “You did that on remarkably few clues,” she said. “Politics indeed. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there could be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock—for breeding purposes.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Silence is often the best thing to say,”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Halleck murmured: “‘For they shall suck of the abundance of the seas and of the treasure hid in the sand.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“the”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“The Lord Leto says that when it was denied an external enemy, the all-male army always turned against its own population. Always.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“To the people whose labors go beyond ideas into the realm of “real materials”—to the dry-land ecologists, wherever they may be, in whatever time they work, this effort at prediction is dedicated in”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“bad luck,” which any sentient creature should be able to identify as a collision between mortal flesh and the outer chaos of the universe.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Can you collect chaos?” the ghola asked. “We Zensunni say: ‘Not collecting”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Los humanos permitieron que esas máquinas usurparan nuestro sentido de la belleza”
― Frank Herbert, Saga Dune 1-6. La mayor epopeya de todos los tiempos: (edición estuche con: Dune | El mesías de Dune | Hijos de Dune | Dios emperador de Dune | Herejes de Dune | Casa capitular Dune)

“I’m a figurehead. When godhead’s given”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“I do not like the way you smile,” Mohiam said abruptly”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Once”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Mentats were necessary. The human-computer replaced the mechanical devices destroyed by the Butlerian Jihad. Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind!”
― Frank Herbert, Dune: The Gateway Collection

“Some never participate. Life happens to them. They get by on little more than dumb persistence and resist with anger or violence all things that might lift them out of resentment-filled illusions of security. —ALMA MAVIS TARAZA”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your own life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Men must want to do things out of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organizations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work. Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses. —A LETTER TO CHOAM ATTRIBUTED TO THE PREACHER”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Jessica: I wish you to see my fear. Ghanima: Now I know you love me.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. —THE BASHAR TEG”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“pride and overconfidence, that form of narcissism described in Greek tragedies that invariably led to the great fall.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“«A cada momento nos rodea lo desconocido. Es allí donde uno tiene que buscar el conocimiento».”
― Frank Herbert, Saga Dune 1-6. La mayor epopeya de todos los tiempos: (edición estuche con: Dune | El mesías de Dune | Hijos de Dune | Dios emperador de Dune | Herejes de Dune | Casa capitular Dune)

“Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world’s language, that it’s different for every world.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness—they cannot work and their civilization collapses.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Become too conservative and you were unprepared for surprises.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Enter no conflict against fanatics unless you can defuse them.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“It builds itself as a barrier against change, and that always leaves future generations unprepared for the universe’s treachery.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“It builds itself as a barrier against change, and”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Trying to avoid complications often creates them.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Educational bureaucracies dull a child’s questing sensitivity.” Odrade explaining. “The young must be damped down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change.”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“Religion (emulation of adults by the child) encysts past mythologies: guesses, hidden assumptions of trust in the universe, pronouncements made in search of personal power, all mingled with shreds of enlightenment. And always an unspoken commandment: Thou shalt not question!”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection

“But what of the hunter behind me—the nightmare figure with the axe? What map tells me where she is tonight?”
― Frank Herbert, Frank Herbert's Dune Saga Collection