As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark teeth.
Philip José FarmerThese people who expect to be saints in heaven, though they were not on Earth, have ignored the wisdom of the founders of the great religions. This wisdom is that the kingdom of heaven is within you and that you do not go to heaven unless you are already in it. The magic must be wrought by you and you alone. God has no fairy wand to tap the pig and turn it into a swan.
People ignore this. And those who believe in sinners burning in hell are, perhaps, not so much concerned with going to heaven as with being sure that sinners-–others-–roast forever in the flames.
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 José FarmerTags: life insanity death sanity ironic sane
The fortune of the man who sits also sits
Philip José FarmerImagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
Philip José FarmerTags: imagination writing
...a writing in the sand which all may read but few understand." - Philip Jose Farmer in 'Riders of the Purple Wage
Philip José FarmerIt was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
Philip José FarmerTags: shame
This story is about love, which means that it is also about hate.
Philip José FarmerThe 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 José FarmerTags: science-fiction parable fairy-tale genre ray-bradbury kurt-vonnegut
- И защо човечеството получи своята Втора Възможност? - попита Колоп с тихия си сериозен глас.
- Нима я заслужава? Не. С малко изключения хората са подло, нищожно, дребнаво, злобно, тесногръдо, невероятно себично, вечно препиращо се и гнусно гъмжило. Като го наблюдават, боговете - или Бог - би трябвало да повърнат. Но в тази божествена храчка се намират и съсиреци на състраданието, моля да ме извините, че си служа с подобни образи. Колкото и да е долен човекът, той съдържа сребърната нишка на божественото в себе си. Не е безсмислено твърдението, че човек е сътворен по образ и подобие Божие. И в най лошите сред нас има нещо, което си струва да бъде съхранено, и от това нещо може да възникне новият човек.
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