Author of quotes: Frank Herbert

People looked at their gods and talismans and saw in them their fear and their ambitions.

Here God is dethroned lies - he fell and low fell. We have built a higher pedestal.

Sometimes you have to say is not what you think. It's called diplomacy.

I know it's very difficult to understand. I will survive four death - a death of flesh, death of the soul, the death of myth and the death of reason. And each of these deaths contain the seed of revival.

Death is a deeply personal thing, and I rarely interfering in the personal Affairs of people.

As firmly rooted in people, the opinion that gods should be perfect. The Greeks in this respect was much more reasonable.

The sins of the world would deprive the rest anyone.

Your original unselfish choice fills you now with selfishness.

The expectations which history creates for one generation may not mean anything to another... Yes... and disappointed expectations can make strangers to each other the whole people.

Fundamentals of power is very dangerous, because attracted people actually insane, people who seek power only for the sake of power.

He's trapped. He learned that it is very difficult to live in the present, continue to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

Civilization is mostly based on cowardice. So easy to civilize people, teaching him of cowardice. You throw away the standards, bringing up the courage. You restrict will. You regulate the appetites. You twine horizons fences. You determine the laws of each movement. You deny the very existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly and carefully. You tame.

Not religion, whether voluntarily took the patent for the creation of all things throughout all these millennia?

Do not enter in conflict with fanatics, if you can not neutralize them. Do not oppose one another religion only if your proofs (miracles) cannot be refuted or if the fanatics perceive you as an inspired prophet of God. These circumstances have always been an obstacle for science, trying to dress up in a toga divine Providence. But science always seems to people as the work of human hands. Fanatics (and many people are fanatics in any private matter) should know where you stand, but more importantly, they need to know who whispers in your ear.