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
balance care delicate
A beginning is the time for taking the most delicate care that the balances are correct.
anger men angry-man
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
law drug-prohibition
Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
water swim survival
Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
wall wind one-day
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.
pay violence thrive
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.
purpose argument thrive
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.
substitutes
Education is no substitute for intelligence.
spices sci-fi science-fiction
He who controls the spice controls the universe.
believe men way
When religion and politics travel in the same cart, the riders believe nothing can stand in their way. Their movements become headlong - faster and faster and faster. They put aside all thoughts of obstacles and forget the precipice does not show itself to the man in a blind rush until it's to late.
thinking judgement risk
You aren't thinking or really existing unless you're willing to risk even your own sanity in the judgement of your existence.
teaching ease failing
Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.
over-it absolutes
The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.
feelings guilt thrive
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.