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Frank Herbert [1920-1986] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Fiction writer

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.

Religion, Anger, Change, Fear, Freedom, Future, Knowledge, Respect

Quote	Tags	Rank
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.	Freedom	101
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.	Change	102
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.	Anger	103
Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.		104
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.		105
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.		106
The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.	Knowledge	107
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 on the road. Being sentimental is when the same driver, when swerving away from the rabbit, hits a pedestrian.		108
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.	Fear	109
Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.	Future, Religion	110
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.	Religion	111
Truth suffers from too much analysis.		112
The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.		113
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 cannot hear another world all around us?		114
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.	Respect	115
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, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.		116
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.		117
To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.		118
Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.		119
What do you despise? By this are you truly known.		120
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 mountain, you cannot see the mountain.		121
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 really is.		122
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.		123
He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.		124
The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.		125
Something cannot emerge from nothing.		126
There is no escape - we pay for the violence of our ancestors.		201

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