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26 quotes by Frank Herbert

Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) 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. The Dune saga, set in the distant future and taking place over millennia, deals with complex themes such as human survival...
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Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

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The difference between sentiment and being sentimental is the following: Sentiment is when a driver swerves out of the way to avoid hitting a rabbit... →

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How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

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Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and... →

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Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

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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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The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

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It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

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To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

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If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot... →

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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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Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain. From the top of the... →

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One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic... →

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