Quotes about Mystery
A ruler must learn to persuade and not to compel... he must lay the best coffee hearth to attract the finest men... a good ruler has to learn his world's language... it's different for every world... the language of the rocks and growing things... the language you don't hear just with your ears... the Mystery of Life... not a problem to solve, but a reality to experience... Understanding must move with the flow of the process.
— Frank Herbert
There's no mystery about a human life. It's not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
— Frank Herbert
The abyss remains. It is pregnant with all the things yet to be. Ah, what gentle violence!
— Frank Herbert
His thoughts were too vague to be described, but they comprehended mysterious elements.
— Frank Herbert
Something compelling and attractive surrounded walking anonymously at night in the streets of Arrakeen.
— Frank Herbert
She said the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
— Frank Herbert
Paul crawled through the sphincter
— Frank Herbert
The mystery of consciousness? Erroneous data—significant results.
— Frank Herbert
Paul felt that he had been infected with terrible purpose. He did not know yet what the terrible purpose was.
— Frank Herbert
The oracle cannot chance upon what it cannot understand.
— Frank Herbert
the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience
— Frank Herbert
Then she said a good ruler has to learn his world's language, that it's different for every world. And I thought she meant they didn't speak Galach on Arrakis, but she said that wasn't it at all. She said she meant the language of the rocks and growing things, the language you don't hear just with your ears. And I said that's what Dr. Yueh calls the Mystery of Life.
— Frank Herbert