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Frank Herbert
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear....
“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
“Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.”
“Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it ...
“But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.”
“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
“Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been know...
“Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!”
“Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation whic...
“It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.”
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
“A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and f...
“The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.”
“All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts bu...
“Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the ...
“When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements ...
“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between li...
“They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”
“One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those thin...
