41 Quotes by Philip José Farmer

Burton did not believe in miracles. Nothing happened that could not be explained by physical principles if you knew all the facts .

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.

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book.

Now we have lit a candle to the power Of atoms; now we know we’re heirs of light Itself...

Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.

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.

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 .

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