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
pay violence thrive
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
hope ambition clouds
Hope clouds observation.
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.
balance care delicate
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
law drug-prohibition
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
substitutes
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
anger men angry-man
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
feelings guilt thrive
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
wall wind one-day
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
spices sci-fi science-fiction
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
teaching ease failing
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 have always known.
water swim survival
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
purpose argument thrive
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
evil tests ultimate
The ultimate test ... to see the good in evil and the evil in good.