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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Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.
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A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.
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One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.
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Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.
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We can say that Maud'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.
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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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The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
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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.