Top 45 Philip Jose Farmer Quotes
#1. Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .
Philip Jose Farmer
#2. The way is open, comrades, free as Space
Alone is free. The only gold is love,
A coin that we have minted from the light
Of others who have cared for us on Earth
And who have deposited in us the power
That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars.
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#3. Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ...
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#4. 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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#5. 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.
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#6. On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.
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#7. 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 .
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#8. One thing is sure, O comrades, that the love
That fights to keep us rooted in the earth,
But also urges us to dare the stars,
This irresistible, this ancient power
Wedged in the soul, unshakable, is the light
That burns our roots and leaves us free for Space.
Philip Jose Farmer
#9. Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
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#11. 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.
Philip Jose Farmer
#12. Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum.
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#13. It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
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#14. A writing in the sand which all may read but few understand. - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage
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#16. 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.
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#17. 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.
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#18. Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.
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#19. 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.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.
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#22. Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it.
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#23. There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.
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#24. Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural.
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#25. 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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#26. Call me Meier, Goring said, but he did not pause to explain the joke .
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#27. Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate.
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#28. It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character.
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#30. Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.
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#31. Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
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#32. Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .
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#34. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#38. Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes.
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#40. Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.
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#41. As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.
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#44. You had to make your choice between survival and efficiency, though in the long run survival was optimum efficiency, no matter how much time and effort it took.
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#45. Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise.
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