Quotes by Philip Jose Farmer

Philip Jose Farmer

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.

Afterlife

Treatment

Would Be

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

Dark

Ignorance

Superstitions

Beauty in this Iron Age must turn, From fluid living rainbow shapes to torn, And sootened fragments, ashes in an urn, On whose gray surface runes are traced by a Norn, Who hopes to wake the Future to arise, In Phoenix-fashion, and to shine with rays, To blast the sight of modern men whose dyes, Of selfishness and lust have stained our days…

Fashion

Men

Phoenix

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

Believe

Miracle

Principles

Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.

Faces

Giving

Men

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.

Half

Men

Wife

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 .

Afterlife

Facts

Would Be

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.

Doe

Events

Men

Call me Meier,” Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

Call Me

Jokes

Said

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

Imagination

Sight

Wise

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Afterlife

Age

Art

Ashamed

Atoms

Attitude

Begging

Belief

Believe

Believer

Bigger

Black

Book

Brain

Call Me

Character

Chicago

Curiosity

Dark

Disappointment

Doe

Dream

Events

Evil

Evolution

Faces

Facts

Fashion

Fiction Stories

Fighting

Forever

Found

Giving

Grief

Half

Hate

Heart

Heirs

Ideas

Ignorance

Imagination

Insane World

Iron

Jokes

Knowing

Life

Light

Long

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Quotes by Philip Jose Farmer

Philip Jose Farmer

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.

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

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

Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” Another fairy tale to give men hope . The old religions have been discredited although some refuse to face even that fact so new ones must be invented.

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.

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 .

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.

Call me Meier,” Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .

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

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