Philip Jose Farmer Quotes
Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night.
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight?
Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself.
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.
Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .
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.
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.
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.
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
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.
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.