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
determination fate thinking
When you think to take determination of your fate into your own hands, that is the moment you can be crushed. Be cautious.
grief victory aging
Grief is the price of victory.
greatness imagination feelings
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he or she is in. That person must reflect what is projected upon him or her.
war power-corrupts magnet
It is not that power corrupts but that power is a magnet to the corruptible.
teaching past history
Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.
time looks consciousness
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
understanding environment function
The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences
war sea roots
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you.
believe want knows
Ultimately, all things are known because you want to believe you know.
believe differences fool
If there is a difference between what is said and what is done, only a fool believes what was said.
mistake taken thinking
The mistakes (of leaders) are amplified by the numbers who follow them without question. Charismatic leaders tend to build up followings, power structures and these power structures tend to be taken over by people who are corruptible. I don't think that the old saw about 'power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely' is accurate: I think power attracts the corruptible.
army police enemy
Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.
children educational dull
Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.
believe past return
Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.