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
restoration life-is mask
Life is a mask through which the universe expresses itself.
war issues secret
Does a population have informed consent when a ruling minority acts in secret to ignite a war, doing this to justify the existence of the minority's forces? [...] failure to provide full information for informed consent on such an issue represents an ultimate crime.
world another-world deafness
What senses do we lack that we cannot see or hear another world all around us?
voice adjectives lows
His voice was low, charged with unspeakable adjectives.
self people want
[Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, 'I am not the kind of person I want to be.' It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.] - Last words of Toure Bomoko
progress shields utopia
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
real thinking numbers
What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.
attitude princess knives
Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.' - from "Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib'' by the Princess Irulan
song heart chords
There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.
church holiness pope
In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.
tolerance limits wells
To know a thing well, know it's limits; Only when pushed beyond it's tolerance will it's true nature be seen. -The Amtal Rule
princess men thinking
Think on it, Chani: the princess will have the name, yet she'll live as less than a concubine - never to know a moment of tenderness from the man to whom she's bound. While we, Chani, we who carry the name of concubine - history will call us wives.
storm gone
We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.
fighting men thinking
When he wanted, he could radiate charm and sincerity, but I often wonder in these later days if anything about him was as it seemed. I think now he was a man fighting constantly to escape the bars of an invisible cage.