Frank Herbert

Won both the Nebula Award and the Hugo Award for his science fiction novel "Dune".

The adaptations that have been made of his "Dune" novels have several connections to the Star Trek films. Patrick Stewart , who played Gurney Halleck in the David Lynch film, went on to play Captain Jean-Luc Picard on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" . Brad Dourif , who played Piter De Vries, guest-starred on "Star Trek: Voyager" . Virginia Madsen , who played Princess Irulan, also guest-starred on "Star Trek: Voyager". Dean Stockwell , who played Doctor Wellington Yueh, guest-starred on "Enterprise" . Alice Krige , who played the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact , also played Lady Jessica in the miniseries "Children of Dune" . In Lynchs version, Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV was played by Jos Ferrer , whose son Miguel Ferrer played a helmsman on the USS Excelsior in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock .

Father of science fiction author Brian Herbert who has co-authored 6 more "Dune" titles.

Posthumously inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame in 2006.

There is a character in Kafkas story "Preparations for a Country Wedding" called Edouard Raban, which corresponds to Baron Harkonnens nephew "The Beast Raban" in Dune.

The quote "I must not fear, fear is the mind-killer" was included among other inspiring quotes in a broadcast news message of comfort and solidarity to the LGBT community, in the wake of the Orlando shooting.

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

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

People say "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. " My,point is that power attracts the corruptible.

[Dune] A popular man attracts the envy of the powerful.

[Children of Dune] If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them,suppress their urge to greatness - they cannot work and their,civilization collapses.

[Children of Dune] The one-eyed view of our universe says you must not,look far afield for problems. Such problems may never arrive. Instead,tend to the wolf within your fences. The packs ranging outside may not,even exist.

[Children of Dune] Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly,toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to,evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends,more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling,class-whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial,empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

[Bene Gesserit Axiom] If you rely only on your eyes, all your other,senses weaken.

There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.

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

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power," Tuek said. "You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Governments, if they endure, always tend increasingly toward aristocratic forms. No government in history has been known to evade this pattern. And as the aristocracy develops, government tends more and more to act exclusively in the interests of the ruling class -- whether that class be hereditary royalty, oligarchs of financial empires, or entrenched bureaucracy.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

Education is no substitute for intelligence.

I am not the river I am the net.

The flesh surrenders itself. Eternity takes back its own. Our bodies stirred these waters briefly, danced with a certain intoxication before the love of life and self, dealt with a few strange ideas, then submitted to the instruments of Time. What can we say of this? I occurred. I am not. . . yet, I occurred.

There is only one true wealth in all the universe--living time.

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead,Then, as his planet killed him, it occurred to Kynes that his father and all the other scientists were wrong, that the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error.

There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.

The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

In 1054, the patriarch of Constantinople and the pope excommunicated each other. That was the end of holiness for both churches.

Scientists seek the lawfulness of events. It is the task of Religion to fit man into this lawfulness.

The Fremen have a simple, practical religion,” he said. “Nothing about religion is simple.

One learns from books and example only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

Ready comprehension is often a knee-jerk response and the most dangerous form of understanding. It blinks an opaque screen over your ability to learn. Be warned. Understand nothing. All comprehension is temporary.

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.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with it.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

Fear is the mind-killer.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

The man without emotions is the one to fear.

motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches.

Military foolishness is ultimately suicidal. They believe that by risking death they pay the price of any violent behavior against enemies of their own choosing. They have the invader mentality, that false sense of freedom from responsibility for your own actions.

It is far better to win a battle through skilled leadership and wise decisions than violence and bloodshed. It may not seem as glorious to the uninitiated, but in the end it results in fewer wounds--of any kind.

Governments always commit their entire populations when the demands grow heavy enough. By their passive acceptance, these populations become accessories to whatever is done in their name.

Liberty and Freedom are complex concepts. They go back to religious ideas of Free Will and are related to the Ruler Mystique implicit in absolute monarchs. Without absolute monarchs patterned after the Old Gods and ruling by the grace of a belief in religious indulgence, Liberty and Freedom would never have gained their present meaning. These ideals owe their very existence to past examples of oppression. And the forces that maintain such ideas will erode unless renewed by dramatic teaching or new oppressions. This is the most basic key to my life.

Absolute power does not corrupt absolutely, absolute power attracts the corruptible.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate. Get the rich, the greedy, the criminals, the stupid leader and so on ad nauseam.

Create or arouse such unbridled forces and you built carnal fantasies of enormous complexity. You could lead whole populations around by their desires, by their fantasy projections.

Move slowly and the day of your revenge will come," Tuek said. "Speed is a device of Shaitan. Cool your sorrow–we’ve the diversions for it; three things there are that ease the heart–water, green grass, and the beauty of woman.

Any man who retreats into a cave which has only one opening deserves to die.

But oh, the perils of leadership in a species so anxious to be told what to do. How little they knew of what they created by their demands. Leaders made mistakes. And those mistakes, amplified by the numbers who followed without questioning, moved inevitably toward great disasters.

I must rule with eye and claw — as the hawk among lesser birds. - Duke Leto Atreides,Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part on the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon him.

Delay is as dangerous as the wrong answer.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it.

There are proven ways to win the loyalty of tough, strong, ferocious men: play on the certain knowledge of their superiority, the mystique of secret covenant, the esprit of shared suffering.

Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition.

Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-- they cannot work and their civilization collapses,Three quick breaths triggered the responses: he fell into the floating awareness. . . focusing the consciousness. . . aortal dilation. . . avoiding the unfocused mechanism of consciousness. . . to be conscious by choice. . . blood enriched and swift-flooding the overload regions. . . one does not obtain food-safety freedom by instinct alone. . . animal consciousness does not extend beyond the given moment nor into the idea that its victims may become extinct. . . the animal destroys and does not produce. . . animal pleasures remain close to sensation levels and avoid the perceptual. . . the human requires a background grid through which to see his universe. . . focused consciousness by choice, this forms your grid. . . bodily integrity follows nerve-blood flow according to the deepest awareness of cell needs. . . all things/cells/beings are impermanent. . . strive for flow-permanence within. . .

If we deny the need for thought, Moneo, as some do, we lose the powers of reflection; we cannot define what our senses report. If we deny the flesh, we unwheel the vehicle which bears us. But if we deny emotion, we lose all touch with our internal universe. It was emotions which I missed the most.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

Constitutions become the ultimate tyranny," Paul said. "They’re organized power on such a scale as to be overwhelming. The constitution is social power mobilized and it has no conscience. It can crush the highest and the lowest, removing all dignity and individuality. It has an unstable balance point and no limitations.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities.

We are plagued by a corrupt polity which promotes unlawful and/or immoral behaviour. Public interest has no practical significance in everyday behaviour among the ruling factions. The real problems of our world are not being confronted by those in power. In the guise of public service, they use whatever comes to hand for personal gain. They are insane with and for power.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft," Irulan agreed. "There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover," Paul said.

On Caladan, we ruled with sea and air power," the Duke said. "Here, we must scrabble for desert power. This is your inheritance, Paul.

One must always keep the tools of statecraft sharp and ready. Power and fear – sharp and ready.

Dune was a world of paradox now—a world under siege, yet the center of power. To come under siege, he decided, was the inevitable fate of power.

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

We had something few experience. We were joined in our strengths rather than in our weaknesses.

The people who demand that the oracle predict for them really want to know next year’s price on whalefur or something equally mundane. None of them wants an instant-by-instant prediction of his personal life.

A single obscure decision of prophecy, perhaps the choice of one word over another, could change the entire aspect of the future. He tells us "The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.

It is difficult to live in the present, pointless to live in the future and impossible to live in the past.

The great mass of humankind possesses an unmistakable unit-identity. It can be one thing. It can act as a single organism.

At the quantum level our universe can be seen as an indeterminate place, predictable in a statistical way only when you employ large enough numbers. Between that universe and a relatively predictable one where the passage of a single planet can be timed to a picosecond, other forces come into play. For the in-between universe where we find our daily lives, that which you believe is a dominant force. Your beliefs order the unfolding of daily events. If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

To accept a little death is worse than death itself.

He felt the inability to grieve as a terrible flaw.

But one learns from books and reels only that certain things can be done. Actual learning requires that you do those things.

We accept too damned many things on the explanations of people who could have good reasons for lying.

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?,Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place.

What you of the CHOAM directorate seem unable to understand is that you seldom find real loyalties in commerce . . . Men must want to do things of their own innermost drives. People, not commercial organisations or chains of command, are what make great civilizations work, every civilization depends upon the quality of the individuals it produces. If you overorganize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness — they cannot work and their civilization collapses.

CHOAM is business and business follows profits.

This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Growth is limited by the necessity which is present in the least amount. And naturally, the least favorable condition controls the growth rate,Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

People always want something more than immediate joy or that deeper sense called happiness. This is one of the secrets by which we shape the fulfillment of our designs. The something more assumes amplified power with people who cannot give it a name or who (most often the case) do not even suspect its existence. Most people only react unconsciously to such hidden forces. Thus, we have only to call a calculated something more into existence, define it and give it shape, then people will follow.

Every man carries his own past with him," Hayt said.

Only fools prefer the past!,Paul looked down at the hand that had known pain, and then up to the Reverend Mother. The sound of her voice contained a difference than from any other voicing his experience. The words were outlined in brilliance. There was an edge to them.

The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.

Black is a blind remembering, she thought. You listen for pack sounds, for the cries of those who hunted your ancestors in a past so ancient only your most primitive cells remember. The ears see. The nostrils see.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

I am a leg of the death tripod that will destroy our foes.

They compose poems to their knives.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

You can not go on forever stealing what you need without regard to those who come after.

It has occurred to me more than once that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

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

The test of a man isn’t what you think he’ll do. It’s what he actually does.

I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Money said, "I warn you that ignorance thrives on hysteria.

Once long ago, he’d thought of himself as an inventor of government. But the invention had fallen into old patterns. It was like some hideous contrivance with plastic memory. Shape it any way you wanted, but relax for a moment, and it snapped into the ancient forms. Forces at work beyond his reach in human breasts eluded and defied him.

There exists a limit to the force even the most powerful may apply without destroying themselves. Judging this limit is the true artistry of government. Misuse of power is the fatal sin. The law cannot be a tool of vengeance, never a hostage, nor a fortification against the martyrs it has created. You cannot threaten any individual and escape the consequences.

In their passion for sameness, the tyrants made themselves more and more powerful. All others grew correspondingly weaker and weaker. New bureaus and directorates, odd ministries, leaped into existence for the most improbable purposes. These became the citadels of a new aristocracy, rulers who kept the giant wheel of government careening along, spreading destruction, violence, and chaos wherever they touched.

Government cannot be religious and self-assertive at the same time. Religious experience needs a spontaneity which laws inevitably suppress. And you cannot govern without laws. Your laws eventually must replace morality, replace conscience, replace even the religion by which you think to govern. Sacred ritual must spring from praise and holy yearnings which hammer out a significant morality. Government, on the other hand, is a cultural organism particularly attractive to doubts, questions and contentions. I see the day coming when ceremony must take the place of faith and symbolism replaces morality.

Life produces a different taste each time you take it.

He learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn. It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.

Whether a thought is spoken or not, it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

When we encounter personal problems, those things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan.

When strangers meet, great allowances should be made for differences in custom and training.

The universe is full of doors.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion," Scytale murmured.

Use the first moments in study. You may miss many an opportunity for quick victory in this way, but the moment the study are in insurance of success. Take your time and be sure.

The Atreides are known to start late getting there growth.

Cynicism! That, no doubt is a greater crime than heresy.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy. Elaborate euphemisms may conceal your intent to kill, but behind any use of power over another the ultimate assumption remains: "I feed on your energy.

Clinging to any form of conservatism can be dangerous. Become too conservative and you are unprepared for surprises. You cannot depend on luck. Logic is blind and often knows only its own past. Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

What delicious abandon in the sleep of the child. Where do we lose it?,You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

I point out to you, Marcus Claire Luyseyal, a lesson from past over-machined societies which you appear not to have learned. The devices themselves condition theusers to employ each other the way they employ machines.

I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.

A killer with the manners of a rabbit - this is the most dangerous kind.

What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

And the question of Wester religion,” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?,Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.

The knife is more dangerous than the hand and the knife can be in either hand.

Piter: Ah-ah, Baron! Is it not regrettable you were unable to devise this delicious scheme by yourself?Baron: Someday I will have you strangled, Piter. Piter: Of a certainty, Baron. Enfin! But a kind act is never lost, eh?Baron: Have you been chewing verite or semuta, Piter?,Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura," the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

One uses power by grasping it lightly. To grasp too strongly is to be taken over by power, and thus to become its victim.

For what do you hunger, Lord?” Moneo ventured. “For a humankind which can make truly long-term decisions. Do you know the key to that ability, Moneo?”“You have said it many times, Lord. It is the ability to change your mind.

Bureaucracy destroys initiative. There is little that bureaucrats hate more than innovation, especially innovation that produces better results than the old routines. Improvements always make those at the top of the heap look inept. Who enjoys appearing inept?,Mood’s a thing for cattle or for making love. You fight when the necessity arises, no matter your mood.

What the eyes had seen could not be erased.

Wild Fremen said it well: "Four things cannot be hidden -- love, smoke, a pillar of fire and a man striding across the open bled.

There will be sadness," Alia intoned. "I remind you that all things are but beginning, forever beginning. Worlds wait to be conquered. Some within the sound of my voice will attain exalted destinies. You will sneer at the past, forgetting what I tell you now: within all differences there is unity.

The hunter does not seek dead game.

As long as my Duke remains unmarried some of the Great Houses can still hope for alliance.

And loyalty is a valued commodity. It can be sold not bought, but sold.

We have a disturbed relationship with our past which religion cannot explain. We are primitive in unexplainable ways, our lives woven of the familiar and the strange, the reasonable and the insane.

A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Hard tasks need hard ways.

He straightened, assuming an odd attitude of dignity – as though it were another mask.

The price we paid was the price men have always paid for achieving a paradise in this life--we went soft, we lost our edge.

The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training.

One moment of incompetence can be fatal.

Schools were started to train human talents. . . The Guild. . . emphasizes almost pure mathematics. Bene Gesserit performs. . . politics. The original Bene Gesserit school was directed by those who saw the need of a thread of continuity in human affairs. They saw there count be no such continuity without separating human stock from animal stock - for breeding purposes.

Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.

Since every individual is accountable ultimately to the self, the formation of that self demands our utmost care and attention.

We will never forgive and we will never forget.

Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. Something cannot emerge from nothing.

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

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

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.

Truth suffers from too much analysis.

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.

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

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.

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