"The brain, knowing that a person can't live……" — Philip Jose Farmer
"The brain, knowing that a person can't live forever in this world, rationalizes a future, or other-dimensional, world in which immortality is possible. In other words, religion is the earliest form of science fiction."
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15 Quotes by Philip Jose Farmer
Philip Jose Farmer has 15 quotes on this site.
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The stars above will be below when man has Love.
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Give us power, give us light To holdall love within our breast's small space.
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Nature is an experimenter.
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It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to…
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By this he meant that all events, therefore, all men, are interconnected in an unbreakable web. What man does, no…
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Despite my vast interest in other universes and new ideas and space, travel and time travel, which by the way…
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Confucius once said that a bear could not fart at the North Pole without causing a big wind in Chicago.
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As science pushes forward, ignorance and superstition gallop around the flanks and bite science in the rear with big dark…
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Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes…
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It was the essence of life to disbelieve in death for one's self, to act as if life would continue…
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Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.
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It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.
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