Frank Herbert Quotes About Belief
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If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.
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Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
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The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him. And he must have a strong sense of the sardonic. This is what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. The sardonic is all that permits him to move within himself. Without this quality, even occasional greatness will destroy a man.
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If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
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Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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