Frank Herbert Quotes
Best 17 Dune Messiah Quotes by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah Quotes
“An offer is only as good as the real thing it buys.’”
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
“Do not be trapped by the need to achieve anything. This way, you achieve everything.”
“Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.”
“Four things cannot be hidden — love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.”
“Here lies a toppled god.
His fall was not a small one.
We did but build his pedestal,
A narrow and a tall one.”
“If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!”
“Only gods can safely risk perfection... it's a dangerous thing for a man.”
“Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality and fall.”
“Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.”
“The dice cannot read their own spots.”
“There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.”
“To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.”
“Truth suffers from too much analysis.”
“Was it defeat to choose a lesser evil?”
“When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.”
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“Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.”
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Frank Herbert Sources
- All quotes by Frank Herbert (180 quotes)
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- New World or No World (2 quotes)
- Science Fiction and a World in Crisis (1 quote)
- The Godmakers (1 quote)
- The Green Brain (1 quote)
- Whipping Star (1 quote)
- Without Me, You're Nothing (1 quote)
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