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
hands people one-day
I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?
order mind body
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
grief sea purpose
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
wrath stones fool
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
violence quiet speak
They say they seek security and quiet, the condition they call peace. Even as they speak they create the seeds of turmoil and violence.
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.
focus awareness force
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
government weapons
Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?
culture enough unstable
In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.
creating antithesis particular
A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
real steps logic
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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.