Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. Quotes

• The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Life

  Tags in People, Improve, Action

• 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.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Death

  Tags in Suspect, Terror

• 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.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Conscious, Little

• Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Slavery

• Truth suffers from too much analysis.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Suffers, Analysis

• To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Attempt

• 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?

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Person, World

• The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Control, Battle

• The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thing, Desirable

• 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.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difference, Sentimental

• Something cannot emerge from nothing.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Something

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

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Discipline

• Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Respect, Truth

  Tags in Morality

• Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Progress, Religion

  Tags in Terror

• 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.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Computer

  Tags in General, Understanding, Logic

• Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Kindness, Cruelty

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

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Poor, Discontented

• 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.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Government, Certain, Despotic

• He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Destroy, Control

• Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

  Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr.

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Stronger, Make

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. (44)

Birth:	8th October, 1920
Death:	11th February, 1986
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. was born in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He 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, ecological consultant, and lecturer.

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