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
philosophy irreverence way
Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.
dream bored steps
I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.
power political doe
Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.
knowledge caring discovery
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.
answers sensible universe
Answers are a perilous grip on the universe. They can appear sensible yet explain nothing.
ideas execution dimes
Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts.
belief dangerous knowledge-is-dangerous
Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
lying ifs
If you live in bad faith, lies will appear to you like the truth.
truth self matter
No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.
men tasks way
All men seek to be enlightened. Religion is but the most ancient and honorable way in which men have striven to make sense out of God's universe. Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.
power corruption power-and-corruption
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
government class patterns
Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.
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Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.
art candid concealing
Politics: the art of appearing candid and completely open while concealing as much as possible.