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
agreement wish tradition
Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.
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.
past pillow
The past is no farther away than your pillow.
fall past air
My lungs taste the air of Time,Blown past falling sands...
power wealth mask
We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.
night tunnels tomorrow
The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.
cutting lines problem
We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.
precision repeats monotonous
Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?
survival important ability-to-change
The most important survival ability for any life form is the ability to change.
fall reality power
Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.
religious practice attention
Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.
mistake fighting men
When your opponent fears you, then's the moment when you give the fear its own rein, give it the time to work on him. Let it become terror. The terrified man fights himself. Eventually, he attacks in desperation. That is the most dangerous moment, but the terrified man can be trusted usually to make a fatal mistake. You are being trained here to detect these mistakes and use them.
mountain tests littles
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
evil tests ultimate
The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.