41 Quotes by Philip José Farmer

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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    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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