Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. Quotes

• Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

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  Topics in Fear

• Fear is the mind killer.

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  Topics in Fear

• Try looking into that place where you dare not look! You’ll find me there, staring out at you!

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  Topics in Fear

• Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

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  Tags in Faith

• Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Science

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

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  Topics in Politics

• Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.

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  Topics in Truth

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

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  Topics in Truth

• 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.

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• A stone is heavy and the sand is weighty; but a fool’s wrath is heavier than them both.

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• Education is no substitute for intelligence.

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  Topics in Death

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

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  Topics in Religion

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

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  Topics in Inspirational, Truth

  Tags in Philosophy

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

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  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Philosophy

• Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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  Topics in Belief

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

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  Topics in Death

• The meeting between ignorance and knowledge, between brutality and culture – it begins in the dignity with which we treat the dead.

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  Topics in Death

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

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

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Doubt/Uncertainty, Understanding, Mystery

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Violence, Escape, Philosophy

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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