Philip Jose Farmer Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By Philip Jose Farmer
Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage. — Philip Jose Farmer
A writing in the sand which all may read but few understand. - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Human beings are part of nature. Anything they do is natural. It's impossible for anything in nature to do anything unnatural. — Philip Jose Farmer
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer
Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. — Philip Jose Farmer
Experience was something it was difficult to avoid, though many people had managed to keep it to a minimum. — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Burton did not believe in miracles . Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts . — Philip Jose Farmer
It's this smoke from the burnin garbage, kid. Enough to make a maggot puke, ain't it? Lookit! The smoke's risin' t'ward the full moon like the ghosts a men so rotten even their spirits're carryin the contamination with em. Hey, li'l chick, you din't know Old Man knew them big words like contamination, didja? That's what livin on the city dump does for you. I hear that word all a time from the big shots that come down inspectin the stink here so they kin get away from the stink a City Hall. 1 ain't no illiterate. I got a TV set. Hor, hor, hor! — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
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 ... — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Caught Beauty , held to light, now apes A good, now evil, thing the shifting sign And spectrum of archaic, psychic shapes. — Philip Jose Farmer
It's not what a person says but what he does that reveals his true character. — Philip Jose Farmer
Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself . — Philip Jose Farmer
The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow. — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half. — Philip Jose Farmer
Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive. — Philip Jose Farmer
The stars above will be below when man has Love. — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would be 'future fairy tales'. And even this is objectionable, since many science fiction stories take place in the present or the past, far and near. — Philip Jose Farmer
Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space. — Philip Jose Farmer
As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth. — 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. — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Invincible ignorance always upset him, even though he knew he should just laugh at it. — Philip Jose Farmer
It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue forever. And life had to act also as if little issues were big ones. To take a realistic attitude toward life and death meant that one lapsed into unreality. Into insanity. It was ironic that the only way to keep one's sanity was to ignore that one was in an insane world or to act as if the world were sane. — Philip Jose Farmer
This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate. — Philip Jose Farmer
There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work. — Philip Jose Farmer
Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago. — Philip Jose Farmer
Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we're heirs of light Itself ... — Philip Jose Farmer
Nature is an experimenter. — Philip Jose Farmer
Tomorrow changes the face of reality. — Philip Jose Farmer
On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again. — Philip Jose Farmer
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and all that. But the Vikings cried like women in public or privately. They soaked their beards with tears and were not one bit ashamed about it. Yet, they were as quick to draw their swords as they were to shed tears. So, what's all this crap about men having to hold in their sorrow and grief and disappointment? — Philip Jose Farmer
Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight? — Philip Jose Farmer
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 . — Philip Jose Farmer
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
I seldom lie,' he said. — Philip Jose Farmer
Look at those mountains. They go straight up, smooth as a politician denying he ever made a campaign promise. — Philip Jose Farmer
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
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. — Philip Jose Farmer
Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man could tolerate. — Philip Jose Farmer
Dreams haunted The Riverworld. — Philip Jose Farmer