Philip Jose Farmer Quotes

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• As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Ignorance, Dark, Superstitions

  "Riders of the Purple Wage or The Great Gavage". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1967.

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• 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

  Knowing, Forever, Brain

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• Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself .

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Should, Persons

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “The Magic Labyrinth”, p.15, Macmillan

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• Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Imagination, Found, Bigger

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• It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Ashamed, Shameful

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• Tomorrow changes the face of reality.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Reality, Faces, Tomorrow

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• 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

  Attitude, Insane World, Self

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• The stars above will be below when man has Love.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Love Life

  "Sestina of the Space Rocket". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer (1953); originally published in "Startling Stories" Magazine, February 1953; republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.

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• This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.

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  Hate, Mean, Stories

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• Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Strange, Resurrection, Strange Bedfellows

  "The Fabulous Riverboat". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1971.

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• 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

  Life, Stars, Light

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• 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

  Character, Writing, Thinking

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• There are Universes begging for Gods, yet he hangs around this one looking for work.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Superstitions, Belief, Begging

  "Riders of the Purple Wage" (1967)

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• 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

  Book, Stupidity, Curiosity

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• 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

  Afterlife, Would Be, Treatment

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.24, Macmillan

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• Nature is an experimenter.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Nature, Science, Evolution

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• 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

  Disappointment, Grief, Sorrow

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• 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

  Believe, Miracle, Principles

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.170, Macmillan

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• 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

  Art, Nature, Men

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• 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

  Fashion, Men, Phoenix

  "Beauty in This Iron Age". Poem by Philip Jose Farmer, originally published in Orma McCormick and Nan Gerding "Starlanes: International Quarterly of Science Fiction Poetry", Issue 11 (Fall 1953); republished in Philip Jose Farmer "Pearls From Peoria" edited by Paul Spiteri, 2006.

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• Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Strong, Thrive, Believer

  "Riders of the Purple Wage". Book by Philip Jose Farmer, 1967.

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• 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.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Men, Wife, Half

  Philip Jose Farmer (2010). “Riverworld: Including To Your Scattered Bodies Go & The Fabulous Riverboat”, p.174, Macmillan

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• Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Light, Space

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• 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

  Twilight, Thinking, Soul

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• Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth.
  We hope to breed a race of men whose power
  Dwells in hearts as open as all Space
  Itself, who ask for nothing but the light
  That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars
  Above will be below when man has Love.

  Philip Jose Farmer

  Life, Stars, Hate

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