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
hard-times psychics people
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
children father believe
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
law ultimate
Law is the ultimate science.
battle wealth conflict
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.
mirrors looks doe
What does a mirror look at?
growth amount
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
limits constitution
There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover.
beautiful order imagination
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.
dream sleep wish
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
differences hitting way
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.
oil water scarcity
The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
law violence grew
The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.
answers done problem
There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.
names evolution
Is evolution just another name for God?