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
fear trying looks
Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
life attitude teaching
Much that was called religion has carried an unconscious attitude of hostility toward life. True religion must teach that life is filled with joys pleasing to the eye of God, that knowledge without action is empty. All men must see that the teaching of religion by rules and rote is largely a hoax. The proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you’ve always known.
thinking world may
Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?
men perfection risk
Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.
black remember blind
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
may beloved eternity
We have eternity, beloved." "You may have eternity. I have only now." "But this is eternity.
art memories winter
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
art hands killing
Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.
thinking would-be easy
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
thinking men machines
Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
art perfection form
Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.
thinking way blind
Thinking you know something is a sure way to blind yourself.
thinking judgement risk
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
thinking secret answers
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.