Frank Patrick Herbert quotes and words of wisdom

"People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles."
Found in the topic Oppression.

"What do you despise? By this are you truly known."
Found in the topic Despise.

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
Found in the topic Existence.

"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."
Found in the topic Government.

"... is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be."
Found in the topic Unsorted.

"Much of what has been called religion has an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rule and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you"ve always known."
Found in the topic Religion.

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain"
Found in the topic Computer.

Interesting Quotes

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fischer

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Martin Luther King