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
pain animal legs
You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.
powerful men
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful,
lessons teach shows
The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.
whirlwind religion-and-politics carts
When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.
believe order filters
If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.
teacher teaching childhood
We never completely escape the teachers of our childhood nor any of the patterns that formed us.
secret balance wave
There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
memories fall reality
Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.
religion progress statistics
Religions often partake of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
fate power siege
To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.
life mistake advice
If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.
answers thrive entropy
Question: Who governs the governors? Answer: Entropy
law littles individual
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.
littles no-fear kill-me
I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.