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
tolerance limits wells
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
princess men thinking
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
storm gone
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
fighting men thinking
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.
life together needs
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
logic emotion curse
Emotions are the curse of logic.
consciousness penalties staring
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
father errors principles
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
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.
men water tribes
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
ignorance culture brutality
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
men finals moments
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
inspirational business moving
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
beautiful order imagination
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.