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
funny-love giving joy
You know it's love when you want to give joy and damn the consequences.
path stagnation
That path leads ever down into stagnation.
court
Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.
restoration life-is mask
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
war issues secret
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [...] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.
world another-world deafness
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
voice adjectives lows
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
self people want
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko
progress shields utopia
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
real thinking numbers
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
attitude princess knives
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
song heart chords
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
tone comedy psychological
Riots and comedy are but symptoms of the times, profoundly revealing. They betray the psychological tone, the deep uncertainties....and the striving for something better, plus the fear that nothing would come of it all.
church holiness pope
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.