I will raise up prophets to make conflicting pronouncements that inevitably will be garbled in transcription, resulting in mutually exclusive definitions of orthodoxy from which the open-minded will flee in dismay. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“We're so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Conflict acting on intelligence creates imagination. Faced with conflict, creatures are forced to imagine what will happen, where the next threat will come from.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“cultures define their gods when they’re young and primitive, when their main concern is survival. They endow their gods with survival characteristics like omnipotence… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
Do you realize it’s been only a century that we’ve been able to go from house to car to office to car to wherever,… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
[T]he scripture worshippers put the writings ahead of God. Instead of interpreting God's actions in nature, for example, they interpret nature in the light… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“They will set aside what they have believed about the world, divesting themselves of all preconceptions, all judgments.... They will do it, then they… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Faith healers. God-loves-you religions. State-supported lotteries. All that enormous energy expended to conquer nothing at all, stadia full of people watching no conquering going… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The sooner we can separate salvageable skeptics from self-righteous absolutists, the sooner we can move along. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me. — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Rich people didn't get in that kind of mess. They never had. Only the poor got trapped: by ignorance, by religion, by self-righteous laws… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image