Philip José Farmer Quotes

He looks like he’d be a hellcat in a fight. Tom and I agreed that he was easily the best qualified. But he doesn’t know anything about books, and I need educated people around me. That may sound snobbish, but so what?

I'm a queer crabbed old man, pent like Merlin in his tree trunk. Samolxis, the Thracian bear god, hibernating in his cave. The Last of the Seven Sleepers.

Perhaps you could tell me how many angels may stand on the point of a pin?

By the Providence that did not exist, events had worked out perfectly.

Malory clung to his faith with fierce obliviousness to “facts”—in itself an indication that he had gone mad, if his critics were to be believed.

I concluded that extreme mysticism was closely allied to madness.

"There was a silence for a while. Finally, Sloosh opened his eyes. He said, "I've traced my line of thought. It's rational and analytic. No. I'm not crazy.

Liquor’s good for one thing. It makes you forget what you’re afraid not to forget.

I thought that was just one of the wild tales those visionaries had invented," Jill said. "I didn't put any more credence in it than I did in the ravings of Earth prophets. Moses, Jesus, Zoroaster, Mohammed, Buddha, Smith, Eddy, the whole sick crew.

It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed.

I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman.

On returning to Germany, he rejoined Hitler, whom he believed to be the only man who could make Germany great again.

A miracle: a chance distribution of events, occurring one time in a billion.

The ideal was the light; the real, the shadow.

We're not that stupid!"
"No, but you're that impulsive. Which is a form of stupidity.