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
grief sea purpose
For now is my grief heavier than the sands of the seas, she thought. This world has emptied me of all but the oldest purpose: tomorrow's life.
focus awareness force
If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.
giving-up moving fall
We’ve lost something vital, I tell you. When we lost it, we lost the ability to make good decisions. We fall upon decisions these days the way we fall upon an enemy—or wait and wait, which is a form of giving up, and we allow the decisions of others to move us. Have we forgotten that we were the ones who set this current flowing?
thinking secret answers
The surest way to keep a secret is to make someone think they already know the answer.
people reason knows
Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!
mankind discontent
Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.
mistake self defense
When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.
wrath stones fool
A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.
time doors vision
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
missing police dull
Police are inevitably corrupted. ... Police always observe that criminals prosper. It takes a pretty dull policeman to miss the fact that the position of authority is the most prosperous criminal position available.
adventure taught population
Does a population have informed consent when that population is not taught the inner workings of its monetary system, and then is drawn, all unknowing, into economic adventures?
fool events fixed
It is not the present which unfluences the future, thou fool, but the future which forms the present. You have it all backward. Since the future is set, an unfolding of events which will assure that future is fixed and inevitable.
night add awake
To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.
mind dying companion
A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.