Quotes by Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson

A fanatic is a man who, when he’s lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

Effort

Men

Sight

A fanatic’s willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

Causes

Peace

War

A man isn’t really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he’d gladly die.

Alive

Littles

Men

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

Figures

Infinite

Navel

At each stage…entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Creativity

Inspiration

Science

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Fall

Stars

Wise

Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man’s safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not guarantee survival in an age when population presses natural resources to the limit and when the knowledge of how to work mischief on a planetary scale is ever more widely diffused among peoples who may grow ever more desperate.

Mean

Men

Space

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

Action

Flow

Giving

Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness that can see naught above or beyond itself…the day draws nigh when Faerie shall fade, the Erlking himself shrink to a woodland sprite and then to nothing, and the gods go under. And the worst of it is, I cannot believe it wrong that the immortals will not live forever.

Believe

Fall

Stars

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man’s ability to understand it.

Men

Science

Too Much

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Action

Adventure

Alive

Archetype

Art

Becoming

Believe

Book

Bravery

Causes

Civilization

Cosmos

Creativity

Dangerous

Destiny

Drunk

Effort

Exploration

Fall

Figures

Firsts

Fishes

Flow

Giving

Government

Heart

Heaven

Hell

Ignorant

Imperfect

Infinite

Inspiration

Journey

Knows

Land

Literal

Littles

Machines

Mean

Men

Motivational

Names

Navel

Organization

Peace

People

Personality

Problem

Race

Rashness

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Quotes by Poul Anderson

Poul Anderson

A fanatic is a man who, when he’s lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

A fanatic’s willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

A man isn’t really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he’d gladly die.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

At each stage…entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.

Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.

He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man’s ability to understand it.

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