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
death needs fear-of-death
What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
dream bored steps
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
inspirational funny life
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
inspirational motivational fear
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
war government personality
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.
real writing stories
There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.
government class patterns
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
knowledge caring discovery
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
power political doe
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
father men flesh
There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
science fiction sometimes
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
freedom history discipline
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
children teaching law
Most civilisation is based on cowardice. It's so easy to civilize by teaching cowardice. You water down the standards which would lead to bravery. You restrain the will. You regulate the appetites. You fence in the horizons. You make a law for every movement. You deny the existence of chaos. You teach even the children to breathe slowly. You tame.
mind machines humans
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.