David Zindell Quotes

All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.

You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.

In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

In time, the heart of each religion grows hard and dies. And so seekers of the godly will always turn to new prophets and new ways, never realizing that, ultimately, all religions separate man from God.

A man lusts to become a god ... and there is murder. Murder upon murder upon murder. Why is the world of men nothing but murder?

The true human being ... is the meaning of the universe. He is a dancing star. He is the exploding singularity pregnant with infinite possibilities.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.

I am not interested in things getting better; what I want is more: more human beings, more dreams, more history, more consciousness, more suffering, more joy, more disease, more agony, more rapture, more evolution, more life.

The universe is a womb for the genesis of gods.

Truth, like a woman, must be wooed and won - and this only through the purity of mind and the heart’s deep love.

What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.

Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out? (p88)

But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever...

Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.