Frank Herbert

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.