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
ends
Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.
profound-truth
Something cannot emerge from nothing.
survival needs playing-chess
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
sleep new-experiences needs
A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.
inspirational training lessons
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
revenge children retarded
Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.
moving cutting reality
We sift reality through screens composed of ideas . (And such ideas have their roots in older ideas.) Such idea systems are necessarily limited by language , by the ways we can describe them. That is to say: language cuts the grooves in which our thoughts move. If we seek new validity forms (other laws and other orders) we must step outside language.
diversity alive landscape
Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.
ideas execution dimes
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
stronger principles asks
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
belief dangerous knowledge-is-dangerous
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
jobs police kind
Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.
religious honesty successful
These are illusions of popular history which successful religion must promote: Evil men never prosper; only the brave deserve the fair; honesty is the best policy; actions speak louder than words; virtue always triumpths; a good deed is its own rewards; any bad human can be reformed; religious talismans protect one from demon possession; only females understand the ancient mysteries; the rich are doomed to unhappiness
strong firsts emotion
Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.