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
schemes persons humans
Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.
running risk becoming
Machine makers always run the risk of becoming totally machine.
responsibility army people
Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.
children needs about-yourself
What are you, child, that you need time to learn about yourself?
enemy allies
Enemies strengthn you. Allies weaken you.
agony snakes skins
One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.
night infinity
Infinity? It attracts us like a floodlight in the night.
collapse trapped knows
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
doors long violence
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
silence best-things silence-is
Silence is often the best thing to say.
evil might infinity
Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.
adventure errors atheism
Every judgment teeters on the brink of error. To claim absolute knowledge is to become monstrous. Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.
initiative
Beaurocracy destroys initiative.
pain humans human-beings
A human being can stand any amount of pain.