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
enemy stronger allies
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
mirrors looks doe
What does a mirror look at?
crush individuality balance
Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.
wisdom rivers
I am not the river I am the net.
past self atrocities-committed
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.
dream sleep wish
To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures.
black remember blind
She looked at patches of blackness. Black is a blind remembering, she thought.
attention draws ultimate
The singular multiplicity of this universe draws my deepest attention. It is a thing of ultimate beauty. Leto II
lying fall pedestal
Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.
growth amount
Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount.
believe belief share
If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
attitude giving people
... motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.
loyalty son loss
Leto turned a hard stare at Kynes. And Kynes, returning the stare, found himself troubled by a fact he had observed here: This Duke was concerned more over the men than he was over the spice. He risked his own life, and that of his son to save the men. He passed off the loss of a spice crawler with a gesture. The threat to men's lives had him in a rage. A leader such as that would command fanatic loyalty. He would be difficult to defeat. Against his own will and all previous judgements, Kynes admitted to himself: I like this Duke.
knowing firsts steps
Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.