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
dirty people leave-me-alone
Ecology is a dirty seven-letter word to many people. They are like heavy sleepers refusing to be aroused. "Leave me alone! It's not time to get up yet!
law quality tests
That is one of the Law's purposes, of course: to test the qualities of those who choose to employ it.
destiny thinking support
Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.
training language delusion
Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.
book people needs
What I'm saying in my books boils down to this: Mine religion for what is good and avoid what is deleterious. Don't condemn people who need it. Be very careful when that need becomes fanatical.
technology tools faces
Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.
philosophy structure questioning
We are questioning more than the philosophy behind our dependence upon limited and limiting systems. We question the power structures that have grown up around such systems.
space nonsense should
If you ask "Should we be in space?" you ask a nonsense question. We are in space. We will be in space.
mean men self
Science fiction, because it ventures into no man's lands, tends to meet some of the requirements posed by Jung in his explorations of archetypes, myth structures and self-understanding. It may be that the primary attraction of science fiction is that it helps us understand what it means to be human.
loyalty real greatness
What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce ... Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their civilization collapses.
inspirational love-is way
Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.
tree feelings fruit
I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me
art memories winter
I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To them I make my vow: I will be resolute and make an art of government; I will balance my inherited past and become a perfect storehouse of my relic memories. And I will be known for kindliness more than for knowledge. My face will shine down the corridors of time for as long as humans exist.
truth knowing light
. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.