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
wise religious mistake
The gravest error a thinking person can make is to believe that one particular version of history is absolute fact. History is recorded by a series of observers, none of whom is impartial. The facts are distorted by sheer passage of time and thousands of years of humanity's dark ages, deliberate misrepresentations by religious sects, and the inevitable corruption that comes from an accumulation of careless mistakes. The wise person, then, views history as a set of lessons to be learned, choices and ramifications to be considered and discussed, and mistakes that should never again be made.
used ambiguity carrie
The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
temptation lessons
There's a lesson in every temptation.
temptation warning safe
And always, he fought the temptation to choose a clear, safe course, warning 'That path leads ever down into stagnation.
survival needs playing-chess
Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.
hysteria undeserving promoting
The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.
ecosystems niche realizing
The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.
betrayal trying scream
When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal.
inspirational training lessons
We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn.
numbers space molecules
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
freedom history discipline
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
stronger principles asks
When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles.
home understanding revolution
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.
differences hitting way
The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.