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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I have no fear, for fear is the little death that kills me over and over. Without fear, I die but once.
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Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You'll find me there, staring out at you!
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FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
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Fear is the mind-killer.
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What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?
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Face your fears or they will climb over your back.
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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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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Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.