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
law justice mistress
Justice required resort to law and that could be a fickle mistress, subject always to the whims and prejudices of those who administered the laws.
trying use radical
Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
creativity men creating
A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating.
ambition reality
Ambitions tend to remain undisturbed by realities.
criticism looks use
Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"
war chaos form
War is the most readily available form of chaos.
order raw-materials chaos
Order generally was a product of human activity. Chaos existed as a raw material from which to create order.
cells principles conflict
It is said that there is a principle of conflict which originated with the single cell and has never deteriorated.
past balance arms
Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity.
heart soul desire
To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned
emotion deny internals
If we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe.
dimensions eternity endless
To see eternity was to be exposed to eternity's whims, oppressed by endless dimensions.
god men separation
There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.
race history invention
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.