We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
Frank HerbertArrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: "Now it's complete because it's ended here."
Frank HerbertEvery civilization must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscious intention of the collectivity.
Frank HerbertWe never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
Frank HerbertReady comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. The judgmental precedents of law function that way, littering your path with dead ends. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.
Frank Herbert