A Collection of Quotes from Frank Herbert

Presented here without commentary.


Mood? What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises - no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.
-Counsel of Gurney Halleck to young Paul Atreides when he declares he is not in the mood for training.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

Hope clouds observation.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

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.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

The highest function of ecology is understanding consequences.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.
-Frank Herbert, Dune

Life - all life - is in the service of life
-Frank Herbert, Dune

Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you've always known.
-Frank Herbert, Dune