Frank Herbert Quotes

In a world of unlimited possibilities, there is always the possibility that there are no possibilities.

In an utter emptiness anything can take place.

God is the tangential point between zero and infinity.

Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

Whether or not the devil is really good or evil is something that we don't really know.

I haven't placed any limits on myself

And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil.

I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.

I'm not interested in your limiting beliefs, i'm interested in what makes you limitless.

Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won't work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. I want you to get good ideas, crazy ideas, extravagant ideas. Nothing is too much for The Lord to do - accent on 'The Lord'.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.

People believe that there's no room for change, there's no room to grow and if we're talking about this idea of God which is the infinite then there's no way that there's no room to grow because infinity is endless. So there must be more room to understand more and to evolve the way we think about this idea.

You never know when the devil might come calling.

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father.

And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.

Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.

All things are possible.

So we reach into the raging chaos, and we cling to it, and we tell ourselves it has meaning, and that the world is good, and we are not evil, and we will all go home in the end.