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.
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.
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.
mind machines humans
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.
truth self matter
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
teacher children educational
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity. The young must be dampened down. Never let them know how good they can be. That brings change. Spend lots of committee time talking about how to deal with exceptional students. Don't spend any time dealing with how the conventional teacher feels threatened by emerging talents and squelches them because of a deep-seated desire to feel superior and safe in a safe environment.
want immortality deny
If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.