Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. Quotes

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

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• Fear is the mind killer.

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

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

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• Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.

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

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• Survival is staying alive one breath at a time.

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• 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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• 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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• 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

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

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  Topics in Truth

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• 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

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• Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

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  Topics in Belief

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

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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 mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve but a reality to experience.

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  Topics in Experience, Life

  Tags in Problem, Reality

• 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.

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  Topics in Religion

  Tags in Conscious, Little

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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