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
believe want proof
All proofs inevitably lead to propositions which have no proof! All things are known because we want to believe in them.
eye rely senses
If you rely only on your eyes, your other senses weaken.
lonely humanity humans
Humans are almost always lonely.
humanity contribution oneself
The best contribution one can make to humanity is to improve oneself.
revenge justice claims
Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion
strings compelling visible
Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.
voice prophet
Death makes a prophet's voice louder.
revenge tables violence
The oppressed always learned from and copied the oppressor. When the tables were turned, the stage was set for another round of revenge and violence -- roles reversed. And reversed and reversed ad nauseam.
opposites longing
Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.
errors principles persistent
The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.
submission
Anything less than abject submission has to have some attack in it.
path mediocrity caution
Caution is the path to mediocrity.
inspiration worry down-and
I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.
limits firsts exploration
If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.