You don’t have a soul, Doctor. You are a soul. You have a body, temporarily.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Mots clés misattributed-to-c-s-lewis body-soul
That's where all of us are standing now, he thought. On the fat kindling of past sins.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Mots clés conscience apocalypse
The captain looked defensive. "You regard our customs as primitive?"
Every society to its own tastes, captain. The wisdom of one society would be folly for another. Who is qualified to judge? Only the universe, which passes the judgment of survival on all peoples.
There seems to be at least one common denominator to all intelligent life: it was bipedal and bimannual. Four legs was the most practical number for any animal on any planet, and it seems that nature has nothing else to work with. When she decided to give intelligence to a species, she taught him to stand on his hind legs, freeing his forefeet to become tools of his intellect. And she usually taught him by making him use his hands to climb. As a Cophian biologist had said, "Life first tries to climb a tree to get to the stars. When it fails, it comes down and invents the high-C drive.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Earth - it was a place where you could stop being afraid, a place where fear of suffocation was not, where fear of blowout was not, where nobody went berserk with the chokers or dreamed of poisoned air or worried about shorthorn cancer or burn blindness or meteoric dust or low-gravity muscular atrophy. A place where there was wind to blow your sweat away.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Tell me, how would you feel if everyone screamed and ran when they saw you coming, or hunted you down like a criminal? How long would you sanity last?"..."...Tell me something else, if all the world was blind save one man, wouldn't the world be inclined to call that man's sight a hallucination? And the man with eyes might even come to agree with the world.
Walter M. Miller Jr.When there was fear, men huddled in small groups and counted their friends on their fingers, and all else was Foe.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
Walter M. Miller Jr.Mots clés theodicy
It is said that water is for cattle and farmers, that milk is for children and blood for men.
Walter M. Miller Jr.The trouble with being a priest was that you eventually had to take the advice you gave to others.
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