The Santaroga Barrier Quotes

“Life hasn’t happened because they didn’t take part in it.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“Did the worm know it was impaled on the hook to lure the trout?”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“One of the faceless gods produced a thundering whisper in Dasein’s skull: “This is my commandment given unto you: A poor man cannot afford principles and a rich man doesn’t need them.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“What’s a practical god?” Dasein asked. “A practical god? That’a a god who agrees with his worshipers.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“Know thyself? Dasein sensed then he couldn’t know himself without dying. Death was the background against which life could know itself.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“they’re destroying their environment. In the process, they’re becoming not-men!”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“He realized in this instant why he felt so terrifyingly lonely. He had no group, no place in a hive of fellow-activity, nothing to shield him from personal decisions that might overwhelm him.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“They had achieved a way of life which wouldn’t be tolerated by the outside. Santaroga offered too much of a threat to the oligarchs of the money-industry world.”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier

“Could you be anything but bluntly honest with a wide-awake human being?”
― Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier