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Frank Herbert

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But it's well known that repression makes a religion flourish.


— Frank Herbert


#religion

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


— Frank Herbert


#life #mortality #wealth #death

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


— Frank Herbert


#learning #education

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.


— Frank Herbert


#nature #death

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


— Frank Herbert


#freedom

They are not mad. They're trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.


— Frank Herbert


#religion

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles


— Frank Herbert


#men

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


— Frank Herbert


#science #religion

the meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture - it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead


— Frank Herbert


#death

It was mostly sweet," he whispered, "and you were the sweetest of all.


— Frank Herbert


#love






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1984 was a tumultuous year in Herbert's life. However despite a disappointing response in the USA the film was a critical and commercial success in Europe and Japan. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author.

The Dune saga set in the distant future and taking place over millennia deals with themes such as human survival and evolution ecology and the intersection of religion politics and power. (October 8 1920 – February 11 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Though also a short story author he is best known for his novels most notably Dune and its five sequels.

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