Frank Herbert Quotes
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That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
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Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.
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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
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If you ask 'Should we be in space?' you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
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We sift reality through screens composed of ideas. (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language, by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.
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Without coming fully awake, Rhin felt his presence beside her, experienced a primitive demand for his protective masculinity. She nestled against him, murmured, 'its so hot. Doesn’t it ever cool off?'
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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.