Clifford D. Simak Quotes
It is only of life on Earth, however, that one can speak with any certainty. It seems to me that all life on Earth, the sum total of life upon the Earth, has purpose.
These are the stories the Dogs tell, when the fires burn high and the wind is from the north.
Much of what we see in the universe ... starts out as imaginary. Often you must imagine something before you can come to terms with it.
When I talk of the purpose of life, I am thinking not only of human life, but of all life on Earth and of the life which must exist upon other planets throughout the universe.
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology
Time is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know if it even exists.
Here lies one from a distant star, but the soil is not alien to him, for in death he belongs to the universe.
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.
If the means were available, we could trace our ancestry - yours and mine - back to the first blob of life-like material that came into being on the planet.
Must faith be exactly that, the willingness and ability to believe in the face of a lack of evidence? If one could find the evidence, would then the faith be dead?
I'm just a propagandist and a propagandist doesn't have to know what he is talking about, just so he talks about it most convincingly.
This is the very center of everything there is. A huge black hole eating up the galaxy. The end of everything.
The chain of life runs smoothly from one generation to the next and none of the links stand out except here and there a link one sees by accident.
But the bars that held you, the bars that kept you in were the luxury and soft living. It is hard to walk out on a thing like that
Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.
Has it ever occurred to you that business as you think of it may have outlived its usefulness? Business has made its contribution and the world moves on. Business is just another dodo. . . .
I can't go back, " said Towser. "Nor I, " said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog, " said Towser. "And me, " said Fowler, "back into a man.
We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil than contemplation of the good.
