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Frank Herbert Quotes

Total quotes: 6
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
— Frank Herbert, California State College, Fullerton Interview(1969)
Tagged: Endings, Stories, Writing, Farewells, Goodbyes, End, Life, Inspirational
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Tagged: Life, Reality
“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Tagged: human, human beings, human thinking, human unconsciousness, logical universe, logical world, Reality
“The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
Tagged: Stress, positive, Negative, Training
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune (Penguin Galaxy)
Tagged: Fear, Over Thinking
“There is in all things a pattern that is part of our universe. It has symmetry, elegance, and grace - these qualities you find always in that the true artist captures. You can find it in the turning of the seasons, the way sand trails along a ridge, in the branch clusters of the creosote bush of the pattern of its leaves. We try to copy these patterns in our lives and in our society, seeking the rhythms, the dances, the forms that comfort. Yet, it is possible to see peril in the finding of ultimate perfection. It is clear that the ultimate pattern contains its own fixity. In such perfection, all things move towards death.”
— Frank Herbert, Dune
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