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
time space locks
Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure.
time looks consciousness
Time can also be a place.... Everything depends on where you are standing, on where you look or what you hear. The measure of it is found in consciousness itself.
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There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times to develop psychic muscles. -- Muad'Dib
time doors vision
The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
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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.
life trust people
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.
lying path danger
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
real steps logic
The real universe is always one step beyond logic.
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A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.