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
life together needs
If you need something to worship, then worship life - all life, every last crawling bit of it! We're all in this beauty together!
logic emotion curse
Emotions are the curse of logic.
consciousness penalties staring
Fear is the penalty of consciousness forced to stare at itself.
father errors principles
Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.
thinking would-be easy
I never thought it would be easy to serve God," she said. "I just didn't think it would be this hard.
men water tribes
A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.
ignorance culture brutality
the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead
men finals moments
Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.
inspirational business moving
A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
beautiful order imagination
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.
hard-times psychics people
There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
children father believe
The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique capability. "I do not have to be what my father was. I do not have to obey my father's rules or even believe everything he believed. It is my strength as a human that I can make my own choices of what to believe and what not to believe, of what to be and what not to be.
law ultimate
Law is the ultimate science.
battle wealth conflict
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.