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
inspirational love-is way
Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.
creativity men creating
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.
trying use radical
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
acceptance names government
Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.
law quality tests
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
adventure taught population
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
errors principles persistent
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
restoration life-is mask
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
coffee moving reality
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.
want kind persons
I am not the kind of person I want to be.
successful
The successful writer listens to himself.
lessons things-change greater-power
The basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
law competition growth
Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."
ignorant intellectual trying
Many things we do naturally become difficult only when we try to make them intellectual subjects. It is possible to know so much about a subject that you become totally ignorant.