Philip José Farmer Quotes

Let's give this entity which you call soul another name. Soul has too many incorrect meanings for humans, too many verbal reverberations, too many contrary definitions.

Now, this is what the visitor said the Ethicals had learned from the Ancients. The Creator, God, the One Spirit, call it what you will, forms all. It is the universe; the universe is it. But its body is formed of two essences. One is matter, the other, for lack of a better word, is nonmatter.

By now you must have accepted the fact that your religion, in fact, none of the Earthly religions, truly knew what the afterlife would be. All made guesses, and then established these as articles of faith. Though, in a sense, some were near the mark, if you accept their revelations as symbolic.

Sometimes I regret we are forbidden any violence whatsoever. Right now, I would like to kick you in the ass.

Monasticism, retreat from the world, reclusivism, that’s a lot of crap.

Sometimes you are arrogant, thinking you are better than others. More often you are humble. Too humble. I might even say, sickeningly humble. That is another form of arrogance. True humility is knowing your true place in the cosmic scale.

If you live very long time or are immortal, perhaps you learn everything about everything in order to pass the time.

I concluded that extreme mysticism was closely allied to madness.

I have been forced into this situation and may like it. To survive you must lie better than the liars, deceive more than the deceivers, and kill the killers first! To me it’s sheer necessity, though justified!

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.

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.

Beauty is beautiful because it is doomed to perish!

Suddenly, he was weeping. The tears were for the good things that had been or might have been, for the bad things that had been but should not have been.

Imagination was the great cozener of the past.

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