46 Philip José Farmer Quotes on Imagination, Story and Death - Quotes.pub

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Dreams haunted The Riverworld.

Miles above the Earth we know, Fancy’s rocket roars. Below, Here and Now are needles which Sew a pattern black as pitch, Waiting for the rocket’s light.

The stars above will be below when man has Love.

Caught Beauty, held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.

Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion, in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic .

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man’s faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we’re heirs of light Itself...

Sawbeaked epitome of bodiless Idea, tossed by gusts of ether, dive Through abstract mists and raid the sea of fact Eat rich strange fish, grow long bright feathers, press Form’s flesh around thought’s rib, and so derive From the act of beauty, beauty of the act.

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

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Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They’ll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast’s small space.

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth, umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?

There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

Nature is an experimenter.

The brain, knowing that a person can’t live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction.

Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

All the human beings I met were either sure that there would be no afterlife or else that they would get preferential treatment in the hereafter.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way I think is impossible, the basic thing is human character, which is the main thing of most writers.

By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no matter how seemingly insignificant, vibrates through the strands and affects every man.

Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.

Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It’s impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.

The n'k did not want to be enlightened. They resented the truth as if it threatened them. In this respect, they are most like humans.

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It is no idle phrase that man was made in God's image. There is something worth saving in the worst of us, and out of this something a new man may be fashioned.

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I’m not a Christian,” Göring said. “I admire a man who can admit that. I don’t think I ever met a preacher who came out and said so, in so many words.

Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat Quotes

It’s not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.

The Gods of Riverworld Quotes

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.

The Magic Labyrinth Quotes

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

The Magic Labyrinth Quotes

- И защо човечеството получи своята Втора Възможност? - попита Колоп с тихия си сериозен глас.- Нима я заслужава? Не. С малко изключения хората са подло, нищожно, дребнаво, злобно, тесногръдо, невероятно себично, вечно препиращо се и гнусно гъмжило. Като го наблюдават, боговете - или Бог - би трябвало да повърнат. Но в тази божествена храчка се намират и съсиреци на състраданието, моля да ме извините, че си служа с подобни образи. Колкото и да е долен човекът, той съдържа сребърната нишка на божественото в себе си. Не е безсмислено твърдението, че човек е сътворен по образ и подобие Божие. И в най лошите сред нас има нещо, което си струва да бъде съхранено, и от това нещо може да възникне новият човек.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go Quotes

La sabiduria consiste en saber cuando evitar al perfeccion

Venus on the Half-Shell Quotes

It’s this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain’t it? Lookit! The smoke’s risin’ t‘ward the full moon like the ghosts a men so rotten even their spirits’re carryin the contamination with em. Hey, li’l chick, you din’t know Old Man knew them big words like contamination, didja? That’s what livin on the city dump does for you. I hear that word all a time from the big shots that come down inspectin the stink here so they kin get away from the stink a City Hall. 1 ain’t no illiterate. I got a TV set. Hor, hor, hor!

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Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.

To Your Scattered Bodies Go Quotes

...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage

Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.

Riverworld: To Your Scattered Bodies Go/The Fabulous Riverboat Quotes

The fortune of the man who sits also sits

To Your Scattered Bodies Go Quotes

As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near.

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It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

Shame Quotes

It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane.

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This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

Hate Quotes Love Quotes Stories Quotes / Story Quotes

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

These people who expect to be saints in heaven, though they were not on Earth, have ignored the wisdom of the founders of the great religions. This wisdom is that the kingdom of heaven is within you and that you do not go to heaven unless you are already in it. The magic must be wrought by you and you alone. God has no fairy wand to tap the pig and turn it into a swan.People ignore this. And those who believe in sinners burning in hell are, perhaps, not so much concerned with going to heaven as with being sure that sinners-–others-–roast forever in the flames.

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

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