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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One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.
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People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.
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Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.
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Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"
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Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until you die. Others use you for their purposes. Not once do you look outside the stable to lift your head and be your own creature.
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Experts and specialists lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit-picking, the ferocious quibble over a comma.
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The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.
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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.