Frank Herbert

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual. ”

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action. ”

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him. ”

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. ”

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ”

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror. ”

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. ”