I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
Frank HerbertHow often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
Frank HerbertMajor flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
Frank HerbertOne uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
Frank HerbertIn 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.
Frank Herbert