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We're afloat in amniotic fluid.' 'How's that?' 'Salt water. It's chemically almost identical with the fluid surrounding an unborn baby.
- Frank Herbert
Ho! You ask after my faith. Well, now—I believe that something cannot emerge from nothing without divine intervention.
- Frank Herbert
The flesh surrenders itself, he thought. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not . . . yet, I occurred.
- Frank Herbert
Creation is discovery. God discovered us in the Void because we moved against a background which He already knew.
- Frank Herbert
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgment of your existence.
- Frank Herbert
And he wondered: What is the now?
- Frank Herbert
Moneo is trapped. He has learned that it is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.
- Frank Herbert
If you need something to worship, then worship life — all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
- Frank Herbert
Let us not bandy philosophical nonsense. Every question can be boiled down to the one: 'Why is there anything?' Every religious, business and governmental question has the single derivative: 'Who will exercise the power?
- Frank Herbert
If you need something to worship, then worship life—all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
- Frank Herbert
Because we cannot imagine a thing, that doesn't exclude it from reality.
- Frank Herbert
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
- Frank Lloyd Wright