Frank Herbert Quotes About Reality
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Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.
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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
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Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
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We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.
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Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
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A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
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Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
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