Frank Herbert Quotes About Universe
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This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.
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Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
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The most terrifying things in the universe came from human minds.
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You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.
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The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
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Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.
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He who controls the spice controls the universe.
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Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
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Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.
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All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
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The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
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To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.
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There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.
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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.
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If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
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Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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In all of my universe I have seen no law of nature, unchanging and inexorable. This universe presents only changing relationships which are sometimes seen as laws by short-lived awareness. These fleshy sensoria which we call self are ephemera withering in the blaze of infinity, fleeting aware of temporary conditions which confine our activities and change as our activities change. If you must label the absolute, use its proper name: Temporary.
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There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
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The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
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The universe does not work by our rules
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The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.
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