Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert
Frank Patrick Herbert, Jr.was an American science fiction writer best known for the novel Dune and its five sequels. Though he became famous for science fiction, he was also a newspaper journalist, photographer, short story writer, book reviewer, ecological consultant and lecturer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 October 1920
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
schemes persons humans
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
gathering chaos collecting
Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.
pain animal legs
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
training language delusion
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
mistake self defense
When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
perception dice spots
The dice cannot read their own spots.
leadership people leader
A leader, you see, is one of the things that distinguishes a mob from a people.
machines language speak
I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.
attitude giving people
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
mankind discontent
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.