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
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Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.
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If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.
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Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change
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The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.
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Beware! The mind of the believer stagnates. It fails to grow outward into an unlimited, infinite universe.
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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.
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To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.
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Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.
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The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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This is the fallacy of power: ultimately it is effective only in an absolute, a limited universe. But the basic lesson of our relativistic universe is that things change. Any power must always meet a greater power.
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Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.
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There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.
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Many have marked the speed with which Muad'Dib learned the necessities of Arrakis. The Bene Gesserit, of course, know the basis of this speed. For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult. Muad'Dib knew that every experience carries its lesson.
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Revenge is for children and the emotionally retarded.