Mystery. The strangeness of place so necessary to some creative spirits. A perfect mixture of the classical utopia and the pagan mystery. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Yes. But terrible heresies have proven to be grim truths many times before in the longer history of my Church, Sek Hardeen.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Sometimes there is a thin line separating orthodox zeal from apostasy,' said Father Lenar Hoyt” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“I know the fucking Bible, and there ain't no fucking Book of Leviathan.” — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
As for the depiction of the Catholic church, it's not meant to be a prediction — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Religion seems to have always offered us that false duality ... the silences of infinite space or the cozy comfort of inner certainty. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
All of our lives are governed by a certain degree of faith in bullshit. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
In the end--when all else is dust--loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave. Faith--true… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“On the contrary, it made me feel that faith is all the more essential. Pain and darkness have been our lot since… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always—or even frequently—mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often reflected the… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“He loved the darkness and the mystery of the Catholic service--the tall priest strutting like a carrion crow and pronouncing magic in… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Sol wanted to know how any ethical system – much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“[The Void Which Binds] actual but unaccessible presence in our universe is one of the prime causes for our species elaborating myth… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“There would be no more offerings. Not this day. Not any day. Humankind had suffered enough for its love of gods, its… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include the truth of contact or be forever hollow. — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“wanted to know how any ethical system—much less a religion so indomitable that it had survived every evil mankind could throw at… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“That’s all! Now either leave us alone or join us as a father rather than a receiver of sacrifices. You have the choice of… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The Song of Kali is with us. It has been with us for a very long time. Its chorus grows and grows and grows.… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“In the end, thought Sol, past logic and hope, it is dreams and the love of those dearest to us that form Abraham’s answer… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“After seven centuries of existence and at least four centuries where few citizens existed without it, the datasphere – including the All Thing and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so completely and terribly, and few things are… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“To be a poet, I realized, a true poet, was to become the Avatar of humanity incarnate; to accept the mantle of poet is… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
Those who ignore history's lessons in the ultimate folly of war are forced to do more than relive them ... they may be forced… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“The day before the Queen's Ball, Father had a visitor--a very young girl with literary aspirations, someone Lord Lytton had recommended visit Father and… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
You've probably heard about the theory of steam-engine time - that even after the steam engine had been invented, it had to wait until… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
“THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER MISUSE OF THIS CHANNEL. YOU ARE DISTURBING OTHERS WHO ARE USING IT TO SERIOUS PURPOSE. ACCESS WILL BE RESTORED… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image
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