“The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), P. 175
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“The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god.”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), P. 175
“What's beautiful is that a creator can be astonished by his own creations.”
Neverness (1988)
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 599
Kontext: The memory of all things is in all things, Danlo remembered. Nothing is ever truly lost.
"The true Elder Eddas," he said "are universal memories. The One memory is just the memory of the universe itself. The way the universe evolves in conscioiusness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being."
"Now you are speaking mystically again, Little Fellow."
"About some things there is no other way to speak."
“The memory of all things is in all things”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 599
Kontext: The memory of all things is in all things, Danlo remembered. Nothing is ever truly lost.
"The true Elder Eddas," he said "are universal memories. The One memory is just the memory of the universe itself. The way the universe evolves in conscioiusness of itself and causes itself to be. We are just this blessed consciousness, nothing more, nothing less. We are the light inside light that fuses into the atoms of our bodies; we are the fire that whirls across the stellar deeps and dances all things into being."
"Now you are speaking mystically again, Little Fellow."
"About some things there is no other way to speak."
“To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human?”
Neverness (1988)
“Oh, where does the light go when the light goes out?”
p88
Neverness (1988)
Quelle: The Wild (1995), p. 91
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 207
“Faith — what is this emotion but a desperate attempt to escape from mind-burning fear?”
Quelle: The Broken God (1992), p. 424
“In an infinite universe, every point in space-time is the center.”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 537
“If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.”
Lyall Watson
Neverness (1988)
“You must remember that an oak tree is not a crime against the acorn.”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 634
“Poems are the dreams of the universe crystallized in words.”
Quelle: The Broken God (1992), p. 296
“Any robot sufficiently intelligent to clean dishes is too intelligent to clean dishes.”
Neverness (1988)
“Eternity and pain, pain and eternity — they are the only two things of which the universe is made.”
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 173
“All men are warriors. And life for everything in our universe is nothing but war.”
Quelle: The Wild (1995), p. 81
Quelle: War in Heaven (1998), p. 476
“But it is the nature of life that no emotion is meant to last forever…”
Quelle: The Wild (1995), p. 42