Philosophy Quote by Frank Herbert — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Education is no substitute for intelligence.”

“Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.”

“Do you wrestle with dreams?”

“The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.”

“A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.”

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

“The development of man's intellectual capacities has far outstripped the development of his emotions. Man's brain lives in the twentieth century; the heart of most men lives still in the Stone Age. The majority of men have not yet acquired the maturity to be independent, to be rational, to be objective. They need myths and idols to endure the fact that man is all by himself, that there is no authority which gives meaning to life except man himself.”

“Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.”

“To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that's not really getting along with anyone. That's just self erasure.”

“Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is something like a shadow from that one.”

“Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.”